Say you play the first round in the Rose Bowl, the second in the Sugar and the championship in the Fiesta. Unless you're hitch-hiking, that's planes to L.A., New Orleans and Phoenix. By championship Saturday, you're pawning the patio furniture you bought for the living room. You could sleep in a box under a freeway. Or you could rent a hotel room.
Hotels love bowl crowds.
They jack their rates and force you to stay multiple nights. You could feed off the energy of your Seminoles. Or you could eat food. Unless you're Tommy Lasorda, three days is nine meals. By the time you reach the College Bowl, you look like Tom Joad.