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If you can track them all, take a appear 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 hard 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 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 really matter? It adds up to a pretty excellent shot in the arm for a lot of athletic applications.

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

Thats lots of action packaged up over 16 days of the vacation season. Stick tv in that package also. Network broadcast hours will best the hundred mark. Take into account too that these games are more than a few hours of parking ones butt at the stadium come game time. They are the impetus for organization of week extended festivals of spending in host cities.

Just as the pay-out for all Bowl games can not 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 difficult to be picky about a name when corporations are lining up to throw sponsorship income at organizers to the tune of $30 million like FritoLay put into the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Its critical money. Severe enough, fans who mightnt be impressed with the rhyme have to agree with the reason. RoyceLapointe603 - Ici55