Root against Texas...

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Originally Posted by nileo

Sad, but the way the bowls work. Happens every year unfortunately.

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I hear you on that. I mean, I was absolutely depressed when ISU was picked over Mizzou for the Insight Bowl last year... :jimlad:

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Originally Posted by chuckd4735

Why on earth would you have your doubts? There is no way the Dallas Football Classic or the Texas Bowl will pick any other Big 12 team if they have the ability to pick Texas.

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Because there is a real chance they would decline if they had a 6-6 record. I don't think more UT fans would show up than ISU fans would to see a 6-6 team play.

Ticket sales are only a small part of it.

Advertising incomes from television and corporate sponsors come into play. Best to get it through your heads that Texas will be selected before ISU if it's a possibility.

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Originally Posted by heitclone

Not that any of us needed another reason to want Texas to lose but I'm getting an erie feeling that if they are bowl eligible, we'll get bumped down a bowl game in favor of the Longhorns.

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This is a reality of the bowl system, and also a reason I hate how it's structured. If anything, ISU fans ought to be rooting FOR UT and Tech, having beat each head-to-head (assuming ISU would finish in a dead-heat with those teams in conference standings, of course).

Supposedly those things come into play with BCS rankings, but it's seemingly zero factor in the rest of the bids, which are based on conference finish. Unless they aren't, and the bowl makes choices based on intangibles.

Again, I know that's reality. But either have a structure, or don't.

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Originally Posted by weR138

Because there is a real chance they would decline if they had a 6-6 record. I don't think more UT fans would show up than ISU fans would to see a 6-6 team play.

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I would tend to disagree with everything you said, but that's just me.

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Originally Posted by chuckd4735

I would tend to disagree with everything you said, but that's just me.

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That's great Chuck.

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Originally Posted by weR138

That's great Chuck.

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Is it?

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Originally Posted by ISUFan22

Hate rooting against them as it makes our win over them look less impressive.

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Agreed. Our win was a whole lot cooler when Nebraska couldn't beat them but we could. Now it just makes Nebraska look like they dropped it (they did) and the everyone else beat an average team.

That said, at this point let the sky keep falling. I think we put the first nail in the coffin, and history will probably not downplay our win in that game.

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Originally Posted by chuckd4735

Is it?

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It's not?