Can someone please explain why...

[Black Diamond Vol]

...something called "The Heart of Dallas Bowl", featuring UNLV and North Texas, is wasting 3 hours of space in my programming guide on New Years freaking Day?

[Tnphil]

I guess they needed something to fill in the space that the Cotton Bowl that use to play at freaking 10am use to occupy.

The Gator Bowl stadium is only about half filled I noticed....pretty bad when you got a Neb and Ga playing and can't sell tickets.

[Black Diamond Vol]

Maybe if they hadn't moved so many good games after NYD, this wouldn't be necessary.  I still remember when this was the last day of the CFB season, and there were were about a dozen GREAT games on NYD.  It was a high holy day for a CFB fan, whether or not your team was playing.  Now, it's no better than a typical Saturday in October.

[VinnieVOL]

Maybe if they hadn't moved so many good games after NYD, this wouldn't be necessary.  I still remember when this was the last day of the CFB season, and there were were about a dozen GREAT games on NYD.  It was a high holy day for a CFB fan, whether or not your team was playing.  Now, it's no better than a typical Saturday in October.

True, NYD doesn't seem as monumental now but I do kind of like the fact that the big games are spread out over multiple days.  Instead of it being one last huge gorging of CFB we get to string it out a bit longer.. so there's football a few days more after today.  #glasshalffull 

[HerbTarlekVol]

It's on ESPNU.  That should tell you something about that alleged bowl game.  

[Black Diamond Vol]

True, NYD doesn't seem as monumental now but I do kind of like the fact that the big games are spread out over multiple days.  Instead of it being one last huge gorging of CFB we get to string it out a bit longer.. so there's football a few days more after today.  #glasshalffull 

And that would be great, but what they seem to forget is that not everyone has this entire week off.  I'm not going to stay up until 1AM watching a BCS game when I have to be at work the next morning. 

[Tnphil]

I'm old and grew up in the non TV remote era......New Years night I had ran more yards changing the channel back and forth than all the RBs playing on NYD combined.

I'm a college football junkie....I go into a deep depression when bowl season is over until next Sept. I'm glad they don't play 20 games on NYD and most at the same time and spread it out over another week. My depression is a week shorter because of it.

[BanditVol]

Maybe if they hadn't moved so many good games after NYD, this wouldn't be necessary.  I still remember when this was the last day of the CFB season, and there were were about a dozen GREAT games on NYD.  It was a high holy day for a CFB fan, whether or not your team was playing.  Now, it's no better than a typical Saturday in October.

Yeah, but it's still pretty good.   I agree though, NYD in the 90s for me was something special.  Of course the highlight of the day was usually when Tennessee played.   

[Black Diamond Vol]

Yeah, but it's still pretty good.   I agree though, NYD in the 90s for me was something special.  Of course the highlight of the day was usually when Tennessee played.   

I was still living in Knoxville in the late 90s/early 2000s, and on NYD my roommate and I would move both of our bedroom tvs out to the living room and have 3 games going at once.  Good times.