For those who tried but did not get tickets to the FedEx Orange Bowl: Don't be mad at Penn State first; be mad at the bowl system. No matter how organized or unorganized, fair or unfair you thought the ticket sales process was, the fact still remains that Penn State was allotted about 2,000 student tickets. With more than 4,700 students getting wristbands, it doesn't matter what Penn State did; most students would not be able to go anyway.

Bowl games are not about the students or the fans; they are about money. The team pairings are selected for the sole purpose of ratings. Tickets are legally scalped over the Internet for extraordinary fees that are not, and never were, intended for students. Despite all this, the biggest snub to the fans is the lavish halftime celebration. There are often hundreds of participants who are given tickets and decide to leave after the show. These are tickets Penn State and other schools could have sold.

These schools could get together and fight this, but they won't because the bowl games pay a lot of money. It sad but true: while you'll be home watching the game there's a 14-year-old girl somewhere in Florida with your ticket who couldn't tell the difference between Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden.