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Originally Posted by Bugeater
You did spell consistent right FWIW. I am curious though, on what are you guys basing which is a better bowl? The payouts?
There's no question KU going to a BCS game was a travesty, but the conferences don't pick who goes to those games. But I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the outrage over the other pairings.
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The outrage was cumulative over the three years. KU getting picked over us for the Orange Bowl will be a sore point for a long time. The other two weren't nearly as significant, and I bet hardly any Mizzou fan would care if they weren't lined up back-to-back-to-back. Three years in a row bowl committees chose teams that we had beaten and finished ahead of in conference. We also had better records than the team that got picked over us in all three years.
Anytime any sport gets away from being a merit-based system to something else it is upsetting to most fans. When it is your own team that gets screwed three years in a row then it can be even more aggravating. Don't get me wrong, going to 2nd/3rd tier bowls probably didn't a whole lot of Mizzou fans excited, but it is still frustrating to have the same thing happen three years in a row. Many fans feel like Beebe and the Big 12 should go to bat to make sure our conference's teams are rewarded accordingly for their level of performance, and stuff like this just serves as confirmation that the people running the Big 12 couldn't care less about Missouri.