Food and golf.

Wow.

Sounds like.....
.....a thousand other places.

What's missing, Disneyland?

D-Love, what's missing is an attraction you cannot find elsewhere. And not the Lost Dutchman's Mine, either. I guess warmth is the chief Phoenix attraction. There's a great golf course every 50 yards in the Carolinas. There's great food in various swamps. Plus you don't have to attend a lousy football game. Warmth is good. But I gotta tell you, some places have that and add water.

FYI Hawaii is a state, not a city. And I think you should add San Diego to your list of "cities."

Not firing Wojo at season's end is just proof that TU doesn't care about having a top-notch program anymore. I'd been attending games since '69 and had season tickets since '80 until TU settled on a coach they knew no other school would ever want, Phillips, that killed it for me.A bowl should be an award for a good year and 6-6 does not represent that by any definition.

Ridiculous amount of bowl games? Football fans are the oddest in the world. Start buying Magazines touting next years season before this season is even done, chewing the furniture about time August rolls around, watching Jr. High school football from Texas. Or stupid skills contests of 70 year old NFL QBs. Then what does football fan do? The games are too looong they whine. Ok they shortened the games, of course the BROADCASTS are even longer because instead of more football we got more commercials. If you go to a game in person you see the commercial ref more then the two teams. Way to go. Now there are too many games at end of season. Pick the BCS got it right again, or does Auburn have to beat Alabama again? Or Oregon have to beat Stanford again? A plus one system? Yea, that argument could be made. I also pictured you as someone who was older Pick, now you are like my kid, entertaiiiin meeeee. The matchup is bad enough, now you disrespect that fine noble backwards state? Get in trouble, I hear the jail system there is quite an adventure, right down to pink undies.

There is nothing to add to this column. The bowls have sunk to a level below almost any other sporting event. Lingerie football has more legitimacy (and tons more interest) than most of this trash. All things considered, TU came out pretty good. The Hawaii Bowl might turn out to be one of the more entertaining games. And at least TU has something to play for. Most of the good teams are playing in meaningless events. OU is the best example, with absolutely nothing to gain by playing "You've-been-conned." Rule change remedies: 1) Minimum 8 wins required for bowl invite. 2) No corporate sponsor names linked to bowls. Chances of remedies being adopted: 0.

Maybe at least a winning record to make a bowl...promise you the Fiesta Bowl people are pukin over this matchup. Think how great his bowl couldve been if there werent so many built ins for the 'haves' and restrictions for the 'have nots'. Funny how Boise drops like a rock after losing a fluky game to a ranked opponent on the road in overtime. Ohio St gets beat handily in the same scenario and gets to go the Sugar Bowl... and the team that beat them, Michigan St is 11-1 and no BCS bowl. That could be one of the better bowls,Capitol 1 with MSU vs Bama. Wish OU was playin either of those guys. UCONN lost to Temple for cryin out loud!

Why should it matter to you or any other person that 70 teams have the option to play an extra game, whether called a "Bowl Game" or an exhibition, or a 13th game of the season?

Just like me, all you have to do is turn on the game(s)you wish to see and refuse to watch any game you believe is not worth the viewing time.

The 70 "Bowl Games" are the reason the colleges will never agree to any "playoff system" beyond a "Plus 1" If 70 colleges think it is helpful to their image to play in an otherwise meaningless "Bowl Game", then all the power to them. You and I have no real interest in such decisions.

How you feel about the number of bowls depends on your perspective. OSU wouldn't be where it is now without what began in the 2006 Independence Bowl.

Texas University's goal towards the end of their season was to at least play their way into one of those lower-tier bowls. That goal was even motivating them at that point. There may be 35 bowls, but it's still true not everybody goes and it gives teams and programs something to fight for when they wouldn't have anything else and that helps them and having something tangible to play for improves the quality of overall regular season competition.

Getting to 6 - 6 in a tough BCS conference is not as easy as some might want to say. Occasionally it's even hard for a traditional elite.

I was on the road once looking for something sports to listen to and was able to pick up a broadcast of the Independence Bowl between Northern Illinios and some other non-BCS school. That lower tier bowl so many like to make fun of. But, it was on the radio. When I got home, I watched the end of it on TV. It was broadcast. Somebody was interested. Not everybody, not mostbody. But enoughbody that it rated that.

This crap about a playoff and why do we have so many bowls is just professional sportswriter whining. They have to have something to whine about so right now this is it. If they did put a playoff in NCAA football, it would just give the traditional college football powers that much bigger of an edge than they already have in recruiting and whatever else. That would be the only thing that would come of it. Which of course is probably what a lot of people would want. But it would NOT be in the interests of any other programs.

I agree with the Picker about some bad bowl matchups due to BCS rules and conference bowl affiliations. Sagarin ratings actually have Arizona and Oklahoma State about the same in spite of their respective W-L records so the Alamo Bowl will likely be a halfway decent game. The OU - UConn matchup is obviously a dog only current BCS rules could have created. The future may be brighter. TCU's going to join the Big East because of the allure of that automatic BCS bid, will eventually probably help that conference. If it were me, and it's not, I'd just use some kind of semi-lottery pairing of the top 8 or 10 BCS-ranked teams in BCS bowls instead of having a BCS championship game and then let the polls decide the national champion after the games were over the way it used to be. That would be more playoff-ish than what we have now. It would also give all the bowls more meaning too. It won't happen of course, but I do think it would be better than either the current BCS system we have now or what we had pre-BCS both.

Glad you corrected yourself on San Diego: although the stadium is worthless, the town is a blast, and the weather is generally in the 60's around the time of the bowl games.

As for LA, the Rose Bowl and Pasadena are great, but you can flush the rest of the town.

South Beach/Miami is definitely a great locale.

New Orleans is way over-rated: crime, grime, and, then for dessert, more crime.

And, you are 100% correct, Phoenix is boring.

Vegas needs to build a billion dollar retractable roof stadium and Super Size the Vegas Bowl, and then aim for a Super Bowl.

What we need is a 1st round BCS playoff where say the 2nd week of December you have 16 teams playing for 8 BCS bowl spots, then let the BCS bowls take the winners based on a “lotto” pick alternating each year, each bowls turn in the rotation. Of course, you like to see the winner of the 4 BCS bowl games then have a 2 game “playoff” but hey, we can dream can’t we?