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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, over time, grown to turn into a blur of bowls, and it challenging 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 adequate teams to fill the spots. The set minimum regular 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 a lot more than $190 million to be divided up among participants and an average Bowl game attendance of 51,879 does it truly matter? It adds up to a quite good shot in the arm for a lot of athletic programs.

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

Thats lots of action packaged up more than 16 days of the vacation season. Stick television in that package as well. Network broadcast hours will prime the hundred mark. Take into account also that these games are much more than a couple of hours of parking ones butt at the stadium come game time. They are the impetus for organization of week lengthy festivals of spending in host cities.

Just as the spend-out for all Bowl games cannot be equal, the financial effect of tourism and spending on a host area 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 hard 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 critical cash. Serious adequate, fans who mightnt be impressed with the rhyme have to agree with the cause. [ Blogs ]