{"id":1965,"date":"2015-12-01T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:33:30","slug":"infographic-a-history-of-college-football-bowl-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/infographic-a-history-of-college-football-bowl-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: A History of College Football Bowl Games (1915 &#8211; Now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not your imagination. There really are more college football bowl games than ever. In fact, the 2015 season will conclude with an all-time record high of 41 postseason bowls, two more than in 2014 and 13 more than just a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this isn&#8217;t the place for me to get into why there are so many bowl games, but I think you can make an educated guess on that. The point of this post is just to provide a neat visual history lesson on the progression of bowl games from 1915 &#8212; the first year the Rose Bowl was contested on an uninterrupted basis &#8212; to the present day. As you hover over each bar you&#8217;ll see both the bowl count for a season and any new bowl games started that year. For historical accuracy I use the original names, not whatever they are now.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/viz_v1.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"tableauPlaceholder\" style=\"width: 654px; height: 719px;\"><noscript><a href='#'><img alt=' ' src='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Bo&#47;BowlGamessmall&#47;SmallDash&#47;1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a><\/noscript><object class=\"tableauViz\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"654\" height=\"719\"><param name=\"host_url\" value=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F\" \/><param name=\"site_root\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"BowlGamessmall\/SmallDash\" \/><param name=\"tabs\" value=\"no\" \/><param name=\"toolbar\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"static_image\" value=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/static\/images\/Bo\/BowlGamessmall\/SmallDash\/1.png\" \/><param name=\"animate_transition\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_static_image\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_spinner\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_overlay\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"display_count\" value=\"yes\" \/><param name=\"showVizHome\" value=\"no\" \/><param name=\"showTabs\" value=\"y\" \/><param name=\"bootstrapWhenNotified\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An infographic showing the history of college football bowl games, from 1915 to the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[238,26,229],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-bowl-games","tag-college-football","tag-tableau","wpcat-172-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}