The story of the season is of course the CFP rankings being announced and everyone having to accept a new reality with Florida State being left out. Never before had an unbeaten Power Five member been left out of the playoff, and the outrage has been overwhelming.

Now, with the four-team playoff coming to an end after this season the issue of the committee’s asinine process is mostly taken care of. Sure, someone will find a way to be pissed about which 9-3 misses the playoff but largely no one will muster up this kind of outrage again.

But this begs the question, how could it ever be true that college football would admit that just winning games is not enough?

The short answer is that money and ratings have become far more part of the discussion everywhere from twitter to the media. But I contend that what has harmed the regular season more than anything else is the complete devaluation of the bowl season. Simply put, there are way too many damn bowl games and none of them matter. Even the vaunted New Year’s 6 games mean so little playoff contenders see star players regularly opt-out if they miss the playoff and fall into these bowls.

My solution is simple, take the amount of wins required up from 6 to 7, and eliminate at least 25% of the bowls. It should be a true challenge to make a bowl game, and with the playoff expanding these games will only mean something if it is hard to make one. It should be hard, players need to feel like they earned something.

Maybe this won’t stop the fall of bowl season into an irrelevant cash grab, but at least go down swinging. Scarcity creates buzz and demand. Wipe the shitty Power Five teams out from the bowl slate, and let the top of the G5 and the middle of the Power Five battle it out for glory.