Sports Promoter Aims to Start ‘Irrelevant Bowl’ for College Football’s Two Worst Teams

You’ve heard of the Cotton Bowl. The Rose Bowl. Heck, even the Pop-Tarts Bowl.

In 2024, one sports promoter would like to start a new annual tradition with the “Irrelevant Bowl.”

Roy Englebrecht, a licensed fight promoter, envisions a new concept arriving in college football next season, inspired by the “Mr. Irrelevant” tag given to the last pick in the annual NFL draft. (See Purdy, Brock.)

The Irrelevant Bowl would host two college football bottom feeders in a matchup to determine the worst and second-to-worst teams in college football.

“No polls, no rankings, no controversy, just two winless or near winless teams looking for redemption and one elusive win,” Englebrecht said in a statement posted on the bowl game’s official website. “Knowing that the NCAA has become more flexible with the number of team’s wins to qualify for a bowl, I will petition the NCAA asking them to grant a waiver in 2024 so that two teams would be eligible to play in the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl.”

However, Action Network’s Brett McMurphy reported Wednesday, citing sources, that there is “no chance” the NCAA would issue a waiver and allow a matchup between college football’s two worst teams.

If there had been an Irrelevant Bowl in 2023, the game would have featured 2–10 Vanderbilt facing 1–11 Akron.