Each season, there are 40 NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision bowl games, most of which serve no real purpose.

Although there is a College Football Playoff national championship game, most bowl games have nothing to do with that process. A committee picks four teams that play in two bowl games, and the winners of those games go on to play in the championship. Of the remaining 37 games, some are useful, entertaining, and important. The rest are pretty useless, and some even downright harmful to colleges.