These bowl match-ups are boring at best. USC will crush Illinois, LSU will crush Ohio State, Kansas will get demolished by VaTech. The only game worth watching is W.V and Georgia. We get to see some great running backs and I am sure both teams will have a HUGE chip on their shoulder. Hawaii is a team that is fun to watch, and is entertaining. But their game will be more for show that actual quality.

So now, how is it that Missouri is ranked higher than Kansas in the BCS poll, beat Kansas a couple of weeks ago and Kansas is the one that gets the selection over Missouri?

I also think that either they make all of the conferences play championship games or none of them. It's not fair that Oklahoma, LSU and Va Tech had to play one extra game, against a very tough opponent just to get the same shot at a BCS bowl game that Ohio St., West Va and USC were given by winning regular season titles.

good question.
i guess they thought kansas would produce better ratings. and only two teams can represent their conference in the bcs bowls, so someone had to get shut out.
i think it stinks missouri gets tossed the cotton bowl bone. but i'm figuring they will crush the razorbacks there.

The conferences make that choice on their own.

Their greed underlines their stupidity.



Don't put that on the rest of us smart ones.

It really isn't that hard to do a 16 team playoff while keeping the quality of the bowl games. Move the conference championships up one week (everyone loses one of their weeks off, deal with it). You would have had the round of 16 this past weekend and then the round of 8 next weekend. You then take the time off for the exam period and populate the bowls like normal (including the 12 teams eliminated from the playoffs going to bowls). The top three bowls get the semi-finals on New Years Day and then the championship game the following week. Everyone wins.

That is the biggest crock of BS ever. Missouri hammers Illinois on a neutral field. Beats Kansas easily on a neutral field. Both losses are to a top 5 Oklahoma team (who by the way would be in the championship game but for a Sam Bradford concussion agaisnt Texas Tech.) Illinois has losses to two of the worst Iowa and Michigan teams in recent memory and Kansas and Illinois get BCS payouts and a far superior Missouri team gets nothing. Kansas gets rewarded for getting pounded by Missouri and avoiding the Oklahoma shellacking. Missouri gets punished for beating Kansas.

these people who are running division 1-A football should have zero to do with the sport at all. they need to drop a bomb on the system.

Missouri not being in the BCS at the expense of Kansas and Illinois I think is the biggest crock ever in the BCS and that is quite a statement as there have been tons of those over the years. (ie, the Nebraska and Oklahoma in title games after getting destroyed in the big 12 title game.)

I heard a guy on the radio (not sure where) say that Kansas fans will travel more then Missouri fans. I thought to myself, "How the hell do they know? When is the last time Kansas or Missouri was in a real bowl game?"