Jessica Smetana

It sounds like the ACC pretty quickly shut it down, but they were exploring that.

The other part of it that's sort of funny is that the Holiday Bowl gets money from the city of San Diego because it has an obvious big economic impact on the city when they host the bowl game.

And so if that were to be the case, if they were to move the game, they would have to give that money back.

Of course, it's not really that much money in the grand scheme of things, but it is to sort of demonstrate like the financial situation of a lot of these bowl games that have become a lot less prestigious now that there's 12 teams in the playoff.

And, you know, the Holiday Bowl used to be a game that was two of the better bowl eligible teams would play and had a lot of good ratings in that bowl game.

It was one of the higher tier, like premium tier bowls.

Really?

and yeah yes greg really um remember that i mean it's not like i mean it's yeah the one in san diego i mean it's the arbor day of holidays it's not a new year's six bowl obviously but it's also not like you know the bahamas bowl or one of these other smaller smaller team bowls um it'd usually be like two i think pac-12 and acc are the two teams in the holiday bowl

Anyways, I digress.

I think the point is that this kind of demonstrates the financial strain on a lot of these bowls in the 12-team playoff era.

And I never, ever want to see these bowl games go away.

I would be devastated if we didn't have a full bowl slate in the postseason.

But I understand that things are different now.

Things are changing pretty rapidly.

that was the only i think he was the only big 12 athletic director to to vote no on penalizing the tortilla tossing in the offseason which he did like as a stand like i want to protect this tradition but yeah now that the big 12 decided there's going to be 15 yard penalties if you throw stuff on the field the situation has continuously escalated since the kansas game a couple weeks ago which we talked about last week there was an alleged pocket knife being thrown which

Now, very clearly was not thrown by fans.

They believe that it was dropped by a Kansas coach on the sideline.

But still, the fines have continued to escalate.

And so now the athletic director is like, no one can do this anymore.

I imagine there will be more tortillas than ever thrown this upcoming weekend.