Kstate voting not to go hurts us. That is definitely a team that the Liberty would consider I would think.
ISU Bowl Projection
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KidSilverhair
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Can you imagine ND still being in playoff contention if they’d dropped out of the AP poll when they were 0-2?
Actually, yes, I can still imagine it, but it would have made it harder.
We have a 3% chance of landing in a specific bowl game yet we seem to get Liberty more than 3%. Gross
Pass one of those badges my way. I remember watching Criner (I still cringe when I think back how he used to refer to the team as "working their fannies off") and I had season tickets all throughout the Walden era. Luckily though I also had season tickets through the Johnny Orr era which helped ease the pain.
But, But, "ISU is Finer with Criner". Didn't you drink the Kool-Aide back then?
At least Jim Walden was funny. Criner was just bad.
Exactly, its a $265B organization with a member base that practices heavy donations. BYU is probably top 10 in the country in resources in the NCAA
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Agree it'd be better. It is slightly better than Memphis. But that isn't saying much. Excitement level would go from 3% with Memphis to like 10% to play Tulane. My excitement to play Minnesota or Nebraska in somewhere like HOU/PHX would be around a 80-90% however. With a future CFBP birth the only 100%.
That's not saying much either, sadly for ISU. And honestly I wasn't alive for most teams "bowl history." So I don't care at all. It has no effect on my excitement level for a bowl game or matchup.
That's probably the biggest turn off to me about playing Tulane. Scheduled to play '28 & '29 so it's really only in 3 years & again in 4 years.
It's like Tulsa all over again. Playing them in non-conf in '12 & '13 and also in the Liberty Bowl in '12 for a total of 3 times in 2 years. Ugh. There's 138 FBS teams. Seeing the same team that often just sucks.
Especially now with the CFBP everything should be done to create new and exciting matchups in the non-CFBP bowls. Teams not scheduled or at least old rivals that got lost to conference realignment. ISU vs Mizzou or ISU vs Nebraska makes SO much sense if I'm a bowl rep.
Big 12 needs to make a rule that a team that is bowl eligible but declines to go to a bowl forfeits their cut of the bowl payouts from other conference teams' bowls.
They could regain their cuts by petitioning the league with the cause and gaining a 3/4 vote of the leagues ADs. Should probably put some guidelines in as to examples of "good reasons" and "not good reasons". Clearly insufficient reasons wouldn't even go to a vote.
Good reason: Decimated by injuries or bubonic plague and literally can't safely field a team
Insufficient reasons: Not good enough bowl for us, lost our coach
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Criner was also the exact opposite of Campbell as far as culture goes. His starting QB would go to bars with a couple of O-linemen and pick fights so his O-line could finish them for him. When the press asked Criner questions about one person who got beat up he gave some asinine answer like "<my QB> 1 - <other guy> 0."
That's culture.
That's culture.
I know, wife went to Tulane so we already have a 2029 trip planned for New Orleans.
KidSilverhair
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A lot of talk about Tulane in the Liberty Bowl when they’ve got a pretty darn good chance of making the playoff. Would North Texas go to the Liberty if they lose tonight?
(I see North Texas is slightly favored, so I guess that’s where Tulane to the Liberty is coming from)
(I see North Texas is slightly favored, so I guess that’s where Tulane to the Liberty is coming from)
Make sure you don't name Ale_ Espinoz_ who's red corvette was keyed multiple times.
