The Sun Bowl

[CyForPresident]

I'm just talking out loud, but why the **** isn't the Sun Bowl a Big 12 Bowl? The Sun Bowl is tied for the second oldest bowl with the Orange and Sugar, only the Rose is older. Maybe I'm just stupid or something, but a bowl that old in the State of Texas, the Big 12 hot bed, should be a guaranteed Big 12 team every year. I realize El Paso isn't New York, but this should be a tradition of this conference.

The Fiesta, Cotton, Alamo, Holiday, Sun, and Insight should be Big 12 locks every year. Just another sign of terrible leadership from the Big 12.

 

[NobodyBeatsCy]

Do you really want to go to El Paso? I've been there - it sucks. Good talk.

 

[everyyard]

B1G fans hate that bowl...because of el paso

 

[theshadow]

It was a Big 12 bowl during the 2006-09 cycle, with two years Sun and two years Gator.

It had a long streak of Big Ten vs. Pac-10 from 1995-2005. Before that it was kind of hodgepodge.

Over the entire course of the bowl, 9 of the current Big 12 members (and both future members) have played there. Only Kansas State hasn't.

 

[leroycyclone]

B1G fans hate that bowl...because of el paso

Look at the UTEP basketball bench and notice who's back in El Paso. How does he feel?

 

[LegendofRodA]

IIRC isn't the sun bowl the first bowl game ISU went to?