There have been dips in ratings. Last season, an Alamo Bowl featuring Arizona and Oklahoma averaged 3.93 million viewers — an 18% decline from the 4.78 million who watched Washington and Texas in the same bowl game a year earlier. But don’t tell Kalani Sitake and Deion Sanders that the non-Playoff bowl games are meaningless.

On Saturday night, no. 17 BYU takes on no. 23 Colorado in the Alamo Bowl. BYU-Colorado was once the most likely matchup in the Big 12 title game. These two team