The Best Way to Fix the College Bowl System

Rumor has it that the bowl eligibility could go from six wins to seven wins. This would guarantee that each bowl game would feature winning teams with winning seasons. This would be great for college football when considering the fact that bowl season has been diluted with excess of non BCS bowl games and 6-6 teams. The bowl system doesn't require major fundamental change, but it does need some tweaking.

Bowls should be in the big cites. The reward of winning should be to go from your small college town to a metropolis for a week to play a marque football game. Under that philosophy, why is there a bowl game in Shreveport, LA, Birmingham, AL, Mobile, AL, Albuquerque, NM, and Boise, ID? And even though Dallas, New Orleans, Orlando and San Diego are fine cities, what are they doing with multiple bowl games?

There are 12 bowl games that need to go, including some of the marquee bowl games in Dallas and Orlando. There are three games in Dallas, two in Orlando, two in New Orleans (not including the BCS Championship) and Tampa Bay. The Hawaii Bowl should also go. It may be in a wonderful place, but the time zone difference is too much.

These bowls have to go:

New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, NM)

Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise, ID)

New Orleans Bowl (New Orleans, LA)

Beef O'Brady's Bowl (St. Petersburg, FL)

Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego, CA)

Hawaii Bowl (Honolulu, HI)

Independence Bowl (Shreveport, LA)

Champ Sports Bowl (Orlando, FL)

Armed Forces Bowl (Dallas, TX)

Ticket City Bowl (Dallas, TX)

Compass Bowl (Birmingham, AL)

GoDaddy.com Bowl (Mobile, AL)

With those bowl games wiped out, the fans would just get a bowl game in Las Vegas, Detroit, Charlotte, Washington, San Diego, San Antonio, New York, Nashville, Tempe, Houston, El Paso, San Francisco, Memphis, Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix area, Las Angeles area and Miami. 22 marquee bowl games plus the BCS National Championship Game, which also means 46 teams with winning seasons. So when the season is over, you take the champions and push them aside (11 conference champions total) and then place the rest. What you get is six BCS conference champions in four BCS games, along with the top two teams overall in the Championship Game. Add the remaining top two to fill in the BCS bowl spots and you're left with 36 teams in 18 bowl games.

From there, the priority system would look like this:

1) WAC, MWC, C-USA, MAC, Sun Belt champions

2) <7-5 BCS teams

3) <7-5 Non BCS teams

There can be five designated bowl games in which the champion of the non BCS team can take on their big brother conference. The Sun Belt champ would face a team from the SEC. The MAC champ would face a team from the Big Ten. The C-USA champ would face the Big East for the sole reason that most of today's Big East teams came from the C-USA. The WAC champ gets the Big 12 and the MWC champ gets the PAC-12.

After those five bowl games, the other winning teams gets remaining 13 games with the BCS teams getting first priority and the match ups have to make geographical sense.

With these changes, the bowl games would be work watching and the college football season can end on a very high note.