So Many Comebacks

In tonight's Insight Bowl, Texas Tech came back from 31 down to beat Minnesota 44-41 in overtime. This is the biggest comeback ever in a bowl game, breaking the 30-point deficit record set in 2001, which broke the 25-point deficit record set in 2000. Why big comebacks increasingly common? Five reasons:

1. More and more bowl games, leading to
2. More and more average to bad teams getting into Bowl games,
3. Average to bad teams tend to be so because of their defenses,
4. Offenses are better, and the game is more offense-oriented.
5. Overtime - it's only been in existence since 1996. Games like tonight, in which Tech tied the game at the end of regulation on a field goal, would have ended in a tie.