Last night's Titanic-sized clash between Ball St. and Tulsa in the GMAC Bowl pretty much served as the prime example that we have way too many bowl games out there these days. 

Reports are vague as to how many people showed up for this game - even though it was actually broadcast on ESPN - because no one reported on it. As With Leather notes, you can't find anything about the game on Yahoo! Sports or even ESPN, which showed the damn thing.

The Legend of Cecilio Guante - who was watching the game only because he had a bet riding on it - said after close inspection of the stands, there couldn't have been more than a few hundred people at the game.The picture above would also suggest that. I guess that's precisely what you get when you take two schools that no one cares about and have them play a bowl game in Mobile, Alabama in a monsoon. It was also a blowout, by the way, although not that you'd care.

The truth is that most bowl games are pointless and stupid beyond belief. The only logical reason why they go on is I guess because someone other than just the schools makes money as a result of them. Which is a problem, a huge problem.

That's because one of the main reasons why we don't see a playoff happening is because these horribly stupid bowls continue to exist and perpetuate. If you're a school that never gets into a BCS game (which would be most of them), then you like these countless bowl games, you stick up for them, and you never want them to go away, because they mean you can actually make some money by playing in one. However, if you're like countless college football fans out there, you think these bowl games suck. And they do.

There was one bowl game, and one bowl game only, that I wanted to watch before Dec. 30th. And that was Boise State versus TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl. In fact, that's pretty much my MO every year: Don't even think about watching a bowl game until Dec. 30th.

The NCAA also makes the argument that a playoff, combined with additional independent bowls, would ruin the integrity of bowls. But I'm not sure what kind of integrity bowls like the PapaJohns.com Bowl and the MagicJack Bowl have anyway.

Seriously, it's getting to the point of being ridiculous. There was a time period with a week left in the season where it looked like there may be more bowl games than teams with winning or .500 records. That's atrocious.

Anyway, there are a lot of things that need to be done to effectively create a playoff, but step one would be getting rid of these joke bowl games like the GMAC Bowl. No one watches them, no one cares. Get rid of them.