AP sports columnist Jim Litke explores the "real reason for college football's" bowl season here, concluding with this gem:
Worst of all, at the end of the whole "silly season," we could still be left with a half-dozen, two-loss teams jabbing their index fingers into the air — "We're No. 1" — and a computer could wind up picking among them. If that doesn't sound like a scam somebody cooked up to make money, well ...