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Ah yes it’s here, Capital One Bowl Week. One of the best weeks of the year. Its a week where everyday you can find a great match-up with playmakers from each team on both sides of the ball…. Or is it?

By my count there are 34 bowls going on this season. Where did all of these games come from? Don’t get me wrong, I love College Football and try to watch every  bowl game, but the prestige of the bowl game is being diluted. It used to be a privilege to be invited to a January 1st Bowl Game, but now there are bowl games between teams with barely  a winning record playing  just days before the BCS National Championship. Okay, I get spreading out the BCS Bowl Games to generate more of a buzz, but to put smaller games in between doesn’t make sense to me.

What NCAA football conference is the best in all the country?  The SEC?  The Big Ten?  The Big 12, Pac-10, or Big East?

There has always been a debate among college football fans about which conference has the best teams, best fans, best student sections, best coaches, most prestigious, etc. etc. 

 I say, why debate it? Play it! I am proposing that the NCAA create an all-star tournament that takes the best players from each conference and plays them against each other. Imagine a combination of March Madness and the Olympics. I even have the slogan, “Traditional rivals come together for love of their….conference.” It may be a stretch but it’s still football!