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As bustle goes, the Christmas rush has nothing on college roster movement this time of year. The transfer portal is percolating, and projected draft candidates already are diverting their energies from classwork to combine preparation.
Bowl games, meantime, suffer the brunt of the collateral damage.
These days, some rosters are so diminished by late December that a few prominent teams enter their respective bowl games a shell of their former selves (such as 2023 FSU). In several cases, bowl matchups that initially seemed intriguing become irrelevant.
“People need to see what happened tonight, and they need to fix this,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said immediately after his team’s 63-3 embarrassment of a depleted FSU team in last season’s Orange Bowl. “It needs to be fixed.”
Maybe — just maybe — the problem is fixing itself.
Colorado coach Deion Sanders recently insisted his two marquee players — quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy favorite Travis Hunter — will play in the Alamo Bowl against BYU.
“We have a plethora of seniors that are pro-bound, and guess what? Every last one of them are going to play,” Sanders told reporters. “We don’t tap out. We don’t sit out.”
At Syracuse, coach Fran Brown said he’s confident prolific senior quarterback Kyle McCord will play in the Holiday Bowl against Washington State. Even Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer said he doesn’t expect many opt-outs from his team — rife with draft prospects — for the ReliaQuest Bowl against Michigan in Tampa. On Thursday, Tide quarterback Jalen Milroe said he’ll play in the game.
“These guys are committed to this place,” DeBoer said. “And there’s been a streak of … 10-win seasons and they got a lot of pride in the program and want to continue to move forward, and want to play and spend one more game…
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Author : Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Publish date : 2024-12-13 14:00:00
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