4. St. Petersburg Bowl
The St. Petersburg Bowl is a game that is doomed from the start. No it’s not the tattered Tropicana Field confines that make it a game that’s not always enjoyable, it’s the fact that there are already 5,000 bowl games in Florida to begin with.
There’s a New Year’s Six bowl in Florida and a National Championship Game being played there this year. There’s also a multitude of other bowl games that are on the schedule as well. If the St. Petersburg Bowl was to go away, no one would miss it at all.
First of all, this isn’t even the only game in the Tampa Bay area. The Outback Bowl is a fine game on it’s own that puts together a solid game every season. Then there’s the matter of the aforementioned National Championship.
Last year’s barn burner between Connecticut and Marshall really highlighted how unnecessary this game is. The Florida bowl games might as well just be their own entity in sports at this point. They should just start putting a bowl game for every city.
Who wouldn’t love to see the Pensacola Bowl, Fort Myers Bowl, Sarasota Bowl and Daytona Beach Bowl? With the way things are trending, those could soon be a reality. The St. Petersburg bowl is just a simple reminder that there is such a thing as too much.