Grizalltheway wrote:JoltinJoe wrote:
Now, don't be jealous just because Delaware will never will a major bowl championship. Delaware has other things going for it -- for example, there is no better three quarter team in the FCS right now than Delaware.
I hesitate to step between two east coast elitists going at it, but what exactly does a "major bowl championship" mean, in the grand scheme of things? Isn't it kind of like having the best record in spring training?
Too busy to respond. Mummy and I are taking Biff and Chip to dinner at the club.
Ok, now that I have some time. In the 1930s and 1940s, there were four bowl games: Sugar, Rose, Cotton and Orange. In order to get invited to a bowl game, you essentially had to finish among the top 10 teams in the country.
Later, starting in the 1940s, other bowl games were organized. However, the four original bowl games remained the games that college teams aimed to make. Teams wouldn't accept bids to these other bowl games until the invitations to the original bowl games had gone out. Around this time, football writers began using the term "major bowl game" to distinguish the Sugar, Rose, Cotton and Orange Bowls from the other bowls.
So, the term "major bowl champion" was a term used to describe a team which had won a Sugar, Rose, Cotton or Orange Bowl. Within the past 15-20 years, the Fiesta Bowl has managed to achieve status as a "major bowl" and is today generally understood to be included when someone refers to a "major bowl game."
But, does Fordham have any actual national championships, like UD?
