By the time you reach the College Bowl, you look like Tom Joad. This is what the playoff horde doesn't figure. The playoff horde is led by expense-account media people, who just haul their corporate cards and their golf clubs from playoff site to playoff site. Think of the Marriott points. A playoff won't solve the Bowl Problem, either.
Bowls divide and multiply like cells.
That's not a reward. It's the NHL playoffs. A playoff wouldn't eliminate the Motor City Bowl. UC's players were trapped in fabulous Pontiac, Mich., for eight days, including Christmas. Talk about a token effort at making a team feel welcome.