2005-06 College Bowls • NCAA Football

Not that They’re Defensive or Anything

oddSeth and his snark show no respect for bowl games based in Fort Worth. It’s terrible, really, the way he dismisses the mere idea. For there’s another Fort Worth Bowl this year — not really the same thing, just a new game with the same name. (No need to reinvent the wheel, as they say, when the first wheel was so swank to begin with.)

This year’s Showdown in Cowtown features the 6-5 Kansas Jayhawks (boasting wins over the likes of Appalachian State and Florida Atlantic) and the Houston Cougars (also 6-5 with powerhouse wins over D-IAA Sam Houston State and the homeless, itinerant Tulane). I’ve got Bowl Fever. Yes, I do! I’ve got Bowl Fever, how bout you?!?

It’s just that kind of crap the fine folks who run the Fort Worth Bowl are tired of, though. They speak highly of the entire bowl experience and how special and unique it all is. For instance, after detailing the players’ schedule during bowl week — a trip to Billy Bob’s, a pep rally in the middle of “famous Sundance Square”, that sort of thing — the host committee gets to its actual point:

Because of the different and novel events that each bowl offers its participating teams — i.e. a luau in Hawaii; a trip to Disney World in Orlando; a day on an aircraft carrier in San Diego, etc. — college presidents, athletic directors, and coaches understand the value and uniqueness of the college football bowl system as opposed to a series of playoff games similar to other sports, which would require a team to travel to a site one day, play the game the next, and then move on to the next city for a brief visit.

Anyway:

The Fort Worth Bowl
December 23 at 8:00 pm in, duh, Fort Worth
Kansas vs. Houston

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