The Future Is (Almost) Here

Hulu, for those not inspired to spend every waking moment on the Internet, is a pioneering website that brings television and movie content direct to your computer for free. Such heavy-hitters as Fox and NBC are behind it, meaning they have some of the best programming available. The commercials are bare-boned, so you can cut about 30% of your viewing time and still see the same amount of actual show. Truly revolutionary stuff.

So why's this on a college sports blog? Hulu just added full-length versions of the major 2008 bowl games, including the BCS National Championship, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, and Cotton. Conspicuously absent is the Rose Bowl, which tends to do its own thing. Those rights are owned by ABC.

Calls to a Rose Bowl representative were not immediately returned, but I'd still love to find out that the 2008 Granddaddy is available online in a similar fashion. One can only hope. In the meantime, we're about 10 weeks from football season, so enjoy the bowl highlights above (sans Rose). To see more college football on Hulu, click here. This is the stuff that both jocks and nerds can get excited about.

[UPDATE: This may have been available for awhile on Hulu, but I hadn't seen it until a recent EDSBS post. A Rose Bowl rep is checking to see if this sort of thing may become available for fans of the Granddaddy.]

Comments

[Carlos Villalobos]

I have bought USC season tickets since the 60's and many times iwould buy 20 and take my whole family to the games I would also buy away game tickets I remember the Florida State game we only had 15 people on the bus I traveled with Kim alot. Now that SC is wining I can't get away game tickets or buy 20 to take my family to games I guess I will have to wait until they start losing then they again will have plenty of tickets to sell. I guess if you don't have money to donate you won't get tickets

[gerrrg]

Those weren't just recently added...they were made available nearly right after the end of the bowl season, actually. It started with the previous year's BSU-UO game, then they one by one added all of the just finished season's BCS games.

I think the chances are slim, given that they've been available for the past 5 months and still no Rose Bowl, and I posted on Hulu requesting for the Rose Bowl, way back in late January.