It's the new year and with that comes the time honored tradition of the college bowl game. Now I don't pretend to be a sports expert or even a sports fan but this weekend while hanging out at my dads house we were looking for the score of a particular bowl game on ESPN which turned out to be quite a task. We watched as the ticker scrolled through what seemed like hundreds of scores when it occurred to me...have there always been this many bowl games?

In actuality, I found out that there are 33 college bowl games from the ones we have all heard of such as the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl to some that I felt were a little more obscure such as the Insight Bowl, the papajohns.com Bowl and my personal favorite the Humanitarian Bowl  sponsored by Roady's Truck Stops. I realize that being invited to many of these bowl games is a huge honor and with it comes a huge payout for the participating teams ($17 for the Orange Bowl), but what is the point of having so many bowl games? Doesn't the lack of exclusivity take away from the prestige of playing in a bowl game? It seems to me that having so many bowl games is a lot like a kids birthday party where everyone is given a prize for playing so no one feels left out.

Tell us what you think? Are there too many bowl games, or is this just the useless ranting of one non-sports fan?

FYI: I found the Humanitarian Bowl logo by googling "crapiest bowl game." Don't beleive me? Try it.