it baffles me how every ku fan brings up their orange bowl victory when talking about football and tries to hold it over our heads. like having a bcs bowl win 5 years ago somehow makes them better than us forever. what will they say when the bcs is gone next year and viewed as a failed postseason format?
Gotta keep on that horse until it dies....next year. Expect to hear it a lot.
The difference is that we won the North and went on to beat the crap out of the #1 team in the country. KU on the other hand, didn't play Texas or OU, didn't win the North and didn't play in the Big 12 title game.
Yup no difference.
It's a great moment for KU football. It's basically just a reminder to everyone that KU can get it done with the right coach, just like K-State. It's really no different than K-State fans who bragged about the '03 Big 12 title against Oklahoma.
Well, one thing is for sure... you guys are extremely butthurt about that 12-1 Orange Bowl season. Every time a KU fan brings it up, grapes are the first to try to invalidate it. The Big 12 schedule worked in KU's favor that year, but don't act like we would have been guaranteed to lose against Texas and OU. Texas lost at home to K-State that year, and OU lost at Colorado. KU, on the other hand, won at K-State and at Colorado, and beat everyone on the schedule except for a top 5 Mizzou team (lost by 8 on a neutral field). If anything, KU's Orange Bowl season is better than K-State's '03 Big 12 championship year. KU finished 12-1, #7 in the BCS, with a BCS Bowl win over a top 10 Virginia Tech team, while K-State lost at home to Marshall and finished with four losses total in that '03 season.