My beloved Missouri Tigers football team got hosed tonight by the BCS. The Tigers should have been going to one of the first tier bowl games in January but instead were not invited to the party. Even after the loss last night, the Tigers were number six in the final BCS rankings. With a total of ten spots available it would seem a no brainer that the sixth ranked team would be invited to a BCS game. But, Noooooo....
Missouri didn't make it to a BCS game. They are headed to the Cotton Bowl instead. Now, you can spin it anyway you want, but the Cotton Bowl isn't the game it was years ago. It's a second tier bowl because it hasn't kept up with the payouts of the big four and the BCS game. The Tigers will play Arkansas, the 25th ranked team in the land, in the game that kicks off Tuesday morning the first of January.
What pisses me off is that the Tigers beat both Illinois and Kansas and both of those teams are playing in BCS games. Illinois is going to the Rose bowl and the Chickenhawks are going to the Orange bowl. What the hell were those bowl committees thinking? And to add insult to injury Hawaii, USC and West Virginia are also playing in BCS games, even though all three of their BCS averages are below Missouri's. Again, Mizzou's final BCS ranking was six in the nation. So what the hell gives?
As far as I am concerned the BCS and all of it's business partners and sponsors can kiss by my big white ass. The whole things is a joke.
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