Stung by being excluded from the CFP, Notre Dame has decided not to go to a bowl game at all--they were invited, apparently, to the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Word on the street has it that their new fight song will be "I'll be Home for Christmas".
Seriously, Notre Dame is not the only decent team to refuse a bowl game, as Iowa State and Kansas State have also declined bowl invitations, and I dare say part of the deal is that where previously, players would be seen by pro scouts at bowl games, the current system is that key players are already earning hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in school. It's hard to maintain motivation when everybody's really comfortable already.
The bright side here is that players in South Bend, Ames, and Manhattan are less likely to get injured in the bowl games they're not going to, and the bad side is that viewership of those games will drop without top tier teams in the game. Another bad side is that the prospective opponents will then get a second tier opponent, and the players for that team are going to be more likely to get injured.
No easy way out except for watching real sports like cross country, I guess.
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