Oregon State-Pitt: Sun Bowl Sets College Football Back a Century

I'm a huge football fan. I love smash-mouth football on every level. A game that ends with a 3-0 score is something I long for. Long for, if the defenses are really great throughout the entire game.

The Sun Bowl was not this. The Sun Bowl might as well be called "The Inept Bowl" this year.

My mother had a law partner in Midwest City, Okla. for about 15 years. He was a quiet, nerdy type of guy that no one would assume even thought about sports. He did think about sports, however—specifically the Sun Bowl. In fact, I was bowled over, pardon the pun, when he asked me if I was going to watch the game.

That was five years ago, and since then I have watched the Sun Bowl every year to see why he liked it so much. I mean, I can understand liking the Rose, Cotton, Orange, or Sugar bowls. Hell, even the Fiesta Bowl is considered a great bowl, now. Not as much in the '80s, but now it's annually pretty great contest.

So it is now, with a heavy heart, that I relinquish my fascination with the Sun Bowl. That's how bad this game was. I knew without OSU's star tailback, Jacquizz Rodgers, that the game might be slow, but I was not prepared for this.

Kick both of those teams out of the top 25. Also: make them relinquish all their victories this season. That's what Pitt and Oregon State deserve for making me watch a game of this nature.

There shouldn't be stats given out after this game. The trophy should be thrown into the ocean, and the Sun Bowl should be burned to the ground, and salt should be sowed into the ground so that no college bowl ever grows in the streets of El Paso again.

That's not hyperbole. This game was that bad. Almost "put-a-person-to-sleep" bad. The kind of game that makes me long for a playoff, not because it is the right thing for the sport, but because no one should have to watch a game this bad, that means, literally, nothing in the grand scheme of the season.

I felt like I was watching a game in 1897. Only Walter Camp was nowhere to be found. If he had been in El Paso this afternoon, however, he would have wondered why he ever invented a game this pointless and boring.