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| For the Bowls, this is a fork in the road
Quote: Some of college football's 34 bowls, those quaint relics of a simpler era, may not survive the winter.
As the economy sputters, more fans and alumni of contending teams are likely to stay home. Several teams with strong track records in selling tickets and attracting TV viewers, like Michigan and Tennessee, won't be playing in one, while less bankable schools like Cincinnati and Oregon State will. Last Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama dealt another blow to the old bowl system when he told "60 Minutes" that college football should hold a three-round playoff, something that would make many of the bowls, if not all of them, sideshows.
Even a rule that prevents teams with lousy records from playing in bowls may have to be bent: There are 68 bowl berths available this season, but as of Friday, only 61 teams have enough wins (typically six) to qualify — a potentially embarrassing situation that has forced the NCAA to start thinking about contingency plans which, it says, could involve letting in a team with a losing record.
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