Kids, we had something called Bowl Season. It mattered very much for its own sake. It was a month long, championship bonanza for teams in every record bracket, starting in early December and ending on New Year's Day Players left bowl victories as their legacy to the classes that followed, to match or beat. We voted on a national champion and, if we had two teams we liked, we split it, but it really didn't matter, it was the journey we all cared about This was a unique game called College Football, there was nothing like it. They killed it off back in '98 but it took a few decades before everyone figured it out