A bowl that was a selected, 'quality' bowl, to appear before a national audience by either the Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance, and/or, with respect to the times, BCS.
If we are using the most fluid selection, of which we would have to if Kansas wants to feel special as their 47, 68, and 75 bowls were before the 'quality' selection committees and they wouldn't count for much - sucks to suck, we'd pick the big bowls of the past and the (as its more selective now, with an immensely biased voting panel) BCS big bowls now.
Following bowls were, have/had, and are selective with their choices and fit the criteria (with their times) as a big bowl:
Hancock, Gator, Blockbuster, Cotton (YUP), Sun, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar, and the Rose bowl. (Am I missing one?? Might be, oh well).
Kansas :
Orange Bowl 1947 (L)
Orange Bowl 1968 (L)
Sun Bowl 1975 (L)
Orange Bowl 2007 (W)
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1-3 Total Big Bowls Record
1-0 BCS Record
0-3 Pre-BC/BA Big Bowl Record
4 Total appearances in Big Bowls.
You take away that time period before the BC/BA, Kansas is trash with just one BCS Win
Kansas State :
Cotton Bowl 1997 (L)
Fiesta Bowl 1997 (W)
Cotton Bowl 2001 (W)
Fiesta Bowl 2004 (L)
Cotton Bowl 2012 (L)
Fiesta Bowl 2013 (L)
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2-4 Total Big Bowls Record
0-2 BCS Record (Eff cheatin Oregon)
1-0 BA Record (or BC, whatever idc)
0-0 Pre BC/BA Big Bowl Record
6 Total Appearances in Big Bowls.
BC/BA/BCS all count, enjoy squawk dorks. If there a point of interest I am wrong about (dates, major bowls) theenn have at it.
back to my drink.
