Players Skipping Bowl Games

[snowy]

It doesn't bother me one way or the other. There are way too many bowl games anyway, and only a few of them are special. Bowl games benefit nobody but the sponsors, the universities, and the NCAA. Players get nothing except some swag-which can be some awesome stuff-but as far as I know there's nothing in the rules that requires a player's participation. Since we're talking about McCaffrey...Stanford played in one of those WhoGivesaDamn Bowls that year. Just guessing, but his decision might have been different if Stanford had made, say, the Rose Bowl. The point is, players are within their rights to play or not as they see fit. YMMV.