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Originally Posted by Skipaway
Still no reasons about why non-TCU fans should care.  |
I just use TCU as an example since obviously I know their program the best considering I haven't missed watching, listening, or attending a game in the 3 years I've been a student here so examples are easy to conjure here, but the same could be said for any non-BCS team that performs well. Whose to say a 7-4 BCS team is more deserving of a good bowl slot than a 9-2 non-BCS team.
The big problem with college football and the bowls currently are the question of access and especially access to the money bowl games. The BCS conferences gobble up the top bowls to send their 3rd and 4th seeds to while the non-BCS champs are relegated to bowls that barely payout 1 mil if that.
Heck, TCU is expecting to take 20,000 (Which is huge to any bowl) at least to Houston for the bowl of little real significance other than to attempt to beat another BCS team. Imagine how many would travel for a bowl of significance against an opponent of more significance than Iowa State. So even th