Good bye At-large Bowl Bids

As expected, the NCAA today announced that its legislative committee has decided to change the rule that requires the bowls to only invite a 6-6 team to a bowl when no 7-5 teams are available.  This is a clear move by the major conferences, who apparently can't stand the sight of their 6-6 teams sitting home while the low lifes of college football head to post-season play.

The MAC has three bowl tie-ins, and from here on in, you can expect that those will be the only bowl bids the conference will get.  Something like last year's bowl trip for the Falcons would not have happened under these rules.

This has been on the books for a long time and is no surprise.  The big money schools control the power and the money, and they do not feel the need to use any discretion at all in their handling of non-BCS schools.

It is a shame.  Not new.  Not shocking.  Just a shame.