It will now be harder for bad college football teams to get a bowl game bid, and it's about time.
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The NCAA has approved a three-year moratorium on adding more bowl games. The ruling comes a year after a record three teams with losing records got bowl games. That was a result of not enough teams with winning records for the 41 available bowl games.
The moratorium will not allow any new bowl games until after the 2019 regular season. This affects three cities that were applying for NCAA certification to add bowls in 2016 —- Austin, Texas; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina.
ESPN's sources said the council will continue to "study the postseason issue" and evaluate bowl-eligibility criteria. The council also plans to determine whether the minimum requirement of a "deserving" bowl team is a winning record or finishing 6-6.
A three-year moratorium was previously placed on adding bowl games in 2011 and then six new bowls —- not including the College Football Playoffs —- were added in 2014 and 2015. Last year, a ridiculous 63 percent of college football teams became eligible for bowl berths, including the three teams that went 5-7. In the previous 45 years, only four such teams had competed in a bowl game.
Hopefully the moratorium has its intended effect this time and no more bowl games are added because we'll end up having every team in a bowl game by the time this progression stops. (A battle of winless, 0-12 teams like Central Florida and Kansas would be atrractive, huh?)
