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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I can absolutely guarantee you that the Sugar Bowl was THE thing for SEC fanbases before all the silliness started. It was an event that was pretty much unrivaled in terms of anticipation, I know people who still have 40-50 year old Bourbon Street t-shirts bought on one of the trips.
I'd bet a lot of Pac-10 fanbases have Rose Bowl stuff the same way
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WVU's Sugar Bowl win in '06 is easily the most talked about game by WVU fans to this day. I'm sure a lot of other schools have BCS and big new years day bowls they fondly remember as well. Bowl games in general were a big deal and the BCS bowls an even bigger deal. The playoff games don't get the same level of attention or ratings as the BCS games and no one even bothers with lower tier bowls now.
This was exactly what many predicted. The playoff was pushed by fans that largely didn't understand what made people watch college football. Now we have a system few like and that they want to fix by breaking it further.