Unless it's a playoff game, really can't agree with that all .......... now more than ever. A lot of time in bowls the teams are in two totally different "places", with ours being a perfect example, and the results usually show that.
In this new world of college football, in a lot of cases, coaches will more and more embrace the exhibition aspect of the bowl game to try and evaluate players to replace the ones leaving.
Exactly, e.g., our bowl experience with a mid-level ACC team vs. SMU's.