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Patrick Andres

Alamo, Pop-Tarts Bowls Lead Widespread Spike in Non-CFP Bowl Game Ratings

The Pop-Tarts Bowl mascot after No. 18 Iowa State's 42–41 win over No. 15 Miami on Dec. 28, 2024. | Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images

College football's bowl system ranks among the oddest sports postseason structures in the world—a weird constellation of exhibition games that has only organized itself into a cogent championship-deciding system in the last four decades.

It's something else, too: a money printer for the sport, as evidenced by eye-popping ratings figures gathered by SportsMediaWatch's Jon Lewis in a Tuesday afternoon piece.

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