According to ESPN's Heather Dinich, leaders in the NCAA football bowl game space are hopeful that a CBA could lessen amount of bowl game opt-outs.

When most of us were growing up, pretty much everyone took college football bowl games seriously. It felt like schools and players considered it an honor

The Oklahoma Sooners had another good turnout for their annual spring game. Brent Venables and his staff have turned it into an event with the hopes of building excitement for the coming season. It’s also served as a big recruiting weekend and the Sooners played host to around 100 prospects from high school to college transfer targets.

Sitting out of bowl games has been extremely common in the college football world. Outside of the College Football Playoff, pretty much every bowl game has had to deal with prominent college football players sitting out,