New College Football Bowl Games for 2009-2010 Season

I've heard college football fans complain there were too many college football bowl games this year. I disagree.

I don't think there were enough games and I'm actively working to create an exciting line-up for the 2009-'10 season.

My logic comes from the pervasive new media, web 2.0 and open content strategies. If individuals can supplant the established media by submitting freely all over the web, then why not turn college football into an open bowl game system with a unique way of crowning the champion that dissolves the discriminatory boundaries such as NAIA, Division II, Division I or Bowl Championship Sub-Division, etc.

This is my choice for three additional bowl games in the 2009-2010 college football season:

Independent Armenian Grocers Bowl - played at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, California.

In celebration of the many independent Armenian grocers in Pasadena, California and Glendale, California, this bowl would pit one of the NAIA teams around Los Angeles such as Azusa Pacific University or Occidental College against the annual host -- UCLA.

This will guarantee UCLA a bowl presence but not a guaranteed win.

It could be played December 31 at the Rose Bowl, the day after the Rose Bowl or on January 1 outside the Rose Bowl stadium as people are walking in to the main event.

IndyMac Bank Fed Takeover Bowl - location to be in most economically-depressed section of the U.S.

Just like federal regulators had to take-over banks beginning last year with IndyMac Bank and a host of other financial institutions after brilliant, MBA-type CEOs pressured their staffs to make bad loans, the best NCAA Division III team in the country has the chance to "take over" the worst NCAA Division I Bowl Championship Series team or whatever the heck Division I is now called.

5 Serving of Fruits and Vegetables a Day Bowl - played in Kansas, the geographical heartland of America

Let's combine healthy eating with outdoor exercise to fight obesity - even though torn ligaments, separated shoulders, and concussions happen frequently in football.

This would pit a team from an agricultural area such as UC Davis in California or St. Vincent University in Latrobe, Pennsylvania against a team from a meat-eating area of Texas . . . say, Texas A&M.

Hmm, perhaps we could name this the Vegan vs Carnivore Bowl or the Fight Obesity Bowl.

So you're sitting here thinking these three additional bowl games are ridiculous?

I beg your pardon. College football is an important part of the national landscape and judging by this year's selection of teams and the amount of bowl games, a winning record is no longer necessary to compete in a bowl. And just because you go undefeated, hats off to Utah at 13-0, doesn't mean you should be a national champion.

Finally, here's how we should crown a national champion.

Let's take a lesson from the attorney general in Utah but expand it a bit further. It would eliminate the need for a college football playoff system at any divisional level.

Attorneys from the schools, the counties where the schools are represented, and the states all plead their case in court - starting at the lowest level possible and then for those who remain they get to present their case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hey, we're combining the best America has to offer - college football and frivolous lawsuits!

Hope you enjoyed the bowl games for the 2008-09 season and here's to exciting college football bowl action for the 2009-2010 football season.