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If you can track them all, take a look at the line-up of college football teams that make it to bowl games in what has, more than time, grown to grow to be a blur of bowls, and it tough not to wonder if a qualifying criteria exists.

There is, but with 27 or by some counts 28 bowl games on the schedule, organizers have to dip deep into pool to come up with enough teams to fill the spots. The set minimum common of a .500 season and six wins to get an invitation has set the bar rather low.

They cant all be classic match-ups. With 117 Division Ia teams taking 54 Bowl spots theres no way. But hey, with more than $190 million to be divided up among participants and an average Bowl game attendance of 51,879 does it actually matter? It adds up to a pretty great shot in the arm for a lot of athletic applications.

If there is a flaw its the wealthy get richer and harder to catch. Roughly $139 million of that $190 pay-out goes to the eight large Bowl participants.

Thats lots of action packaged up over 16 days of the vacation season. Stick tv in that package as well. Network broadcast hours will best the hundred mark. Think about as well that these games are a lot more than a handful of hours of parking ones butt at the stadium come game time. They are the impetus for organization of week long festivals of spending in host cities.

Just as the pay-out for all Bowl games can't be equal, the economic influence of tourism and spending on a host region can not all be like the Rose Bowl. The $$$ that festival generates is the grandmother of them all and the model to shoot for.

Its challenging to be picky about a name when corporations are lining up to throw sponsorship money at organizers to the tune of $30 million like FritoLay put into the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Its serious money. Significant sufficient, fans who mightnt be impressed with the rhyme have to agree with the purpose. [ ALLUSATODAY.com]