Remember when a bowl game meant something real? I still think about the 2010 Rose Bowl against Wisconsin. We earned that trip the old fashioned way, winning the Mountain West outright, not buying our way into some 24 team tournament where everyone gets a participation trophy. Now the ACC and Big Ten and Big 12 are all linking arms for this expanded playoff and I just shake my head. Coach Patterson would have told you that you learn more about a team from a New Years Day bowl than from any of ...