The college football ecosphere has perks and pitfalls, one of the latter being an overloaded bowl system that saw 41 games – too many spots up for grabs than available teams to fill them. And with an impending expansion from 12 to 16 teams in the College Football Playoff, the bowl schedule is primed to become even more bloated.
The future of non-Playoff bowls has a hot topic during the last few offseasons, and CFB insider Ross Dellenger delved into the issue Thursday with an innovative idea to freshen up what has become an increasingly stale holiday routine: Eliminate conference tie-ins for the bigger bowls.
In one proposal shared with high-level administrators, a consortium of 10 bowl games — each pitting power conference programs — would be created and potentially sold on the open market, with its television rights controlled by the conferences themselves instead of the bowls. Presumably, these games will be played in existing bowls, but their participants would vary as the bowl system untethers from its traditional conference affiliations.
Could this mean an SEC team in the Alamo or Holiday Bowl? What about a Big 12 team at the Citrus or Gator?
What’s not to like? Five teams from each power league get tossed into a bucket, paired together based on attractive matchups, meet in interesting, new cities and make more cash than they currently generate.
As Dellenger points out, that plan provides flexibility in matchups and also potentially incorporates new television partners like Apple, Amazon and Fox, as well as limiting amount of bowl options in the current era of opt-outs like Notre Dame did in 2025-26.
Dellenger also pointed out that a target date for any bowl remake would be for the 2027 season, which is also likely when an expansion of the current CFP format could begin.
Prediction Markets College Football Playoff Qualifiers 2026 Learn more about Prediction Markets Kalshi Ohio St. 82% Oregon 79% Notre Dame 76% Texas Tech 73% Texas 71% Georgia 67% Miami (FL) 65% Indiana 57% LSU 48% Ole Miss 47% PredictCFB insider reveals ‘bowl consortium’ proposal that would remove conference tie-ins from top non-CFP games Saturday Down South.
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