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The bowl selections are completely absurd.

This is yet another year that my team, Missouri, has been leap-frogged in the selection process by teams that finished behind the Tigers in the standings and/or that Missouri beat soundly in head-to-head matchups.

This year, Missouri would be playing in the Insight bowl if the Big 12 teams had been selected in order of their finish in the conference standings. Instead, they are playing in the Texas Bowl--the lowest-rated bowl to which the Big 12 automatically sends a team.

The Insight Bowl would rather have Iowa State, who finished 6-6 this year, had a sub-.500 conference record, and lost to Missouri just two weeks ago. And the Independence Bowl would rather have Texas A&M, who also finished 6-6 this year and was blown out three times by teams that finished in the middle of their conference standings (including a 62-14 loss to Kansas State, whom Missouri beat by four touchdowns).

I have to give the Insight Bowl credit, though. They gave us the matchup we've all been clamoring for: Iowa State (6-6) vs. Minnesota (6-6). Now that's a great bowl game!!! (Minnesota, by the way, lost to Illinois, another team that Missouri beat by four touchdowns this year.)

Fortunately for Missouri, the bowl system is so effed up that the Tigers are actually getting a BETTER bowl game as a result of being screwed by the Insight and Independence bowls. They'll play Navy, a better team than Minnesota (Navy nearly upset Ohio State in Columbus, and beat Notre Dame in South Bend). It's also an easier game for Mizzou fans to get to. And Texas is within Missouri's recruiting base, which means current players' families and potential future recruits will be nearby.

So there's no reason to be mad this year, unlike two years ago when Missouri got screwed by the Orange Bowl, which went for Kansas after the Jayhawks put together a one-loss season by scheduling high-school teams and avoiding the Big 12 championship game (KU lost to Missouri in the game for the Big 12 North championship). Not only Kansas but also Illinois got at-large BCS Bowl bids two years ago despite losing to Missouri.

I'm not mad this time, I'm mystified. How can the bowl system be this bad?

i thought you were gonna mention something like there were several undefeated teams, and wouldve liked to see how they fared in a 1 game elimination playoff, and see who advances from there.

I'm not gonna say that, it's too obvious.

of course the independence bowls gonna take a&m, they travel much better and shreveports right next to texas. it's easily the biggest weekend of the year for that city w/the casinos, bowl game and new years all at the same time

I agree about college ball sucking, but this is not reason number 1.

If college football wasn't a draft feeder, I'd have like 0 interest really.