I just locked up the BWW Bowl for K-State

[GoPowercat.com]

I booked staff air travel to San Diego for the Holiday Bowl. Rarely does this work out well for me. Oh, and good luck flying directly into San Diego. Holy sticker shock.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

 

[sunny_cat]

I'll take BWW I guess. Can't afford to make the trip to San Diego. If I could, I'd be #teamholidaybowl.

[Tobias]

#teambww,gotosandiegoonvacation

['taterblast]

just booked San Diego as well. it's refundable though.

[Phil Titola]

Southwest'd SD a while ago just in case....don't think If saved much cash but

[Dugout DickStone]

I'll wait until announcement.  Because money

[DOOM_Catz]

Booked San Diego yesterday with Emawblast. Cannot wait to  all the way to sunny San Diego on Christmas eve, bud. Willing to reroute to PHX or whatever teeny airport in the PHX metroplex Allegiant goes to out of MHK.

[420seriouscat69]

I'm taking this year off. Cause I'm still kinda pissed.

['taterblast]

holiday bowl loves the crap out of the cats

http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/04/3157969/holiday-bowl-planning-on-taking.html

[hemmy]

From the Pac-12, Binkowski said the Holiday Bowl is considering Arizona State, Stanford and Oregon “in no particular order.”

Man that would be bad.

[TheFormerKCCat]

Holiday Bowl is considering Arizona State, Stanford and Oregon

Man that would be bad.

Who's most beatable out of those three? Arizona State? Surely our good Holiday Bowl karma will continue no matter what, right? It would be highly enjoyable to see the 'Cats take down Oregon. Likewise with Stanford (I think they're the toughest draw of the three - surely they're in the Rose Bowl, right?).

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Stanford would abuse us.

[scottwildcat]

only chance is vs Arizona State. Would lose by 20+ to the Ducks or Trees.

[mocat]

holiday bowl loves the crap out of the cats

http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/04/3157969/holiday-bowl-planning-on-taking.html

For that to happen a string of chaotic upsets, including a Bowling Green victory over Northern Illinois in the Mid-American Conference championship game, would have to occur over the next few days. Oklahoma State would have to beat Oklahoma to clinch a spot in the Fiesta Bowl. And Baylor would have to beat Texas to raise its BCS at-large hopes.

uh, no, it's just the one upset, over a team favored by *GASP* 3.5 points, you ginormous dumbass writer

[scottwildcat]

holiday bowl loves the crap out of the cats

http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/04/3157969/holiday-bowl-planning-on-taking.html

For that to happen a string of chaotic upsets, including a Bowling Green victory over Northern Illinois in the Mid-American Conference championship game, would have to occur over the next few days. Oklahoma State would have to beat Oklahoma to clinch a spot in the Fiesta Bowl. And Baylor would have to beat Texas to raise its BCS at-large hopes.

uh, no, it's just the one upset, over a team favored by *GASP* 3.5 points, you ginormous dumbass writer

will LOL @ Baylor if when they get left out of a BCS game with only one loss.

[Panjandrum]

holiday bowl loves the crap out of the cats

http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/04/3157969/holiday-bowl-planning-on-taking.html

For that to happen a string of chaotic upsets, including a Bowling Green victory over Northern Illinois in the Mid-American Conference championship game, would have to occur over the next few days. Oklahoma State would have to beat Oklahoma to clinch a spot in the Fiesta Bowl. And Baylor would have to beat Texas to raise its BCS at-large hopes.

uh, no, it's just the one upset, over a team favored by *GASP* 3.5 points, you ginormous dumbass writer

Five games have to go a certain way for Baylor to be in the BCS...

1) OSU beats OU
2) Baylor beats Texas
3) FSU beats Duke
4) OSU beats MSU
5) Bowling Green beats NIU

That would mean six auto qualifiers:
BCS #1: FSU
BCS #2: OSU
SEC: Champ (Auburn/Mizzou)
Pac-12: Champ (Stanford/ASU)
Big 12: OSU
AAC: UCF

If the current BCS standings hold where they are, the following teams could get knocked out of the Top 14 if they lose their BCS title games: Arizona State, Michigan State

Based on the rules, that would leave the following teams (probably) available for at-large bids:

Alabama, Baylor, Oregon, Clemson

If that's the case, it probably looks like this...

BCS Title: FSU/OSU

Orange gets first compensatory pick...Alabama
Rose gets second compensatory pick...Clemson
Orange gets first at-large pick...Oregon
Sugar gets second at-large pick...Baylor
Fiesta gets third at-large pick...UCF

The only thing that really throws a wrench in the plan is if Michigan State losing to OSU doesn't knock them out of the top 14.  Then you just waterfall them at the Rose bowl, and then Clemson goes to Orange and Oregon goes to Sugar.

So, that's what has to happen.  Then Texas goes to the Cotton, OU to Alamo, us to BWW, and Tech to the Holiday.

[Mikeyis4dcats]

I can't imagine they would want a repeat of last year.   That would be bad for ticket sales and ratings.

[CNS]

I can't imagine they would want a repeat of last year.   That would be bad for ticket sales and ratings.

And bad for our oppy to get Our Guy a ring.

[Panjandrum]

I can't imagine they would want a repeat of last year.   That would be bad for ticket sales and ratings.

And bad for our oppy to get Our Guy a ring.

I don't think Oregon is very realistic.  They'll most likely get a BCS at large.  They'll be a Top 10ish team.

I think we end up getting the loser of the Pac-12 title game.

[Skipper44]

The only thing that really throws a wrench in the plan is if Michigan State losing to OSU doesn't knock them out of the top 14.  Then you just waterfall them at the Rose bowl, and then Clemson goes to Orange and Oregon goes to Sugar.

So, that's what has to happen.  Then Texas goes to the Cotton, OU to Alamo, us to BWW, and Tech to the Holiday.

I would be very surprised if the Rose doesn't take MSU to uphold the Big10-Pac12 purity.  The Orange will take Clemson as the ACC is their primary partner going forward. 

So, it comes down to the Sugar choosing between Oregon and Baylor as the opponent for the SEC champ.  TV will prolly want Oregon and I imagine the Sugar bowl committee will want Baylor due the much larger amount of fans that will travel to the game.  My prediction is TV wins out and they choose Oregon. 

I would like to think the Big 12 tie in to the Sugar starting next year will help Baylor but I still remember the feeling of watching the BCS selection show in '11.

[mocat]

holiday bowl loves the crap out of the cats

http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/04/3157969/holiday-bowl-planning-on-taking.html

For that to happen a string of chaotic upsets, including a Bowling Green victory over Northern Illinois in the Mid-American Conference championship game, would have to occur over the next few days. Oklahoma State would have to beat Oklahoma to clinch a spot in the Fiesta Bowl. And Baylor would have to beat Texas to raise its BCS at-large hopes.

uh, no, it's just the one upset, over a team favored by *GASP* 3.5 points, you ginormous dumbass writer

Five games have to go a certain way for Baylor to be in the BCS...

1) OSU beats OU
2) Baylor beats Texas
3) FSU beats Duke
4) OSU beats MSU
5) Bowling Green beats NIU

so, only one upset. that's weird.

[kso_FAN]

Holiday preference:

1. ASU: Worst defense and offense of the 3, but still good.

2. Oregon: Toughest match-up as we know from last year, but I'm not sold how much they'll care to be there.

3. Stanford: Would be toughest of the 3. Maybe a better match-up for pace, their run defense is excellent, their pass defense is just okay.

[mocat]

they all 3 suck for KSU. we are talking about the #9, #10, or #12 team in the snowbrag going up against the #44 team. 

[mocat]

BG winning tomorrow night would be so great. We would have a shot at #40 Michigan instead.