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Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:05 am to Lacour
Posted on 7/16/17 at 2:05 am to Lacour
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This isn't about the other team winning. It's about what a loss did to a program long term.
It isn't as obvious, but A&M's win over Kansas State in the 1998 Big 12 championship is something their program has never recovered from.
They may have won a Big 12 title or two since then, but they were the #1 team in the nation and only had to hold on to a 15-point 4th quarter lead to lock in their spot in the first BCS title game. They went on to lose to Purdue and Drew Brees in the Alamo Bowl.
As a result of that game, the Big 12 had to amend their bylaws to state that the lowest that the Big 12 championship game loser could fall was the Cotton Bowl (Alamo Bowl was 4th choice back then).
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Posted on 7/16/17 at 12:17 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
That K State loss also saved the BCS's bacon. Had they won, I think there was going to be 3 undefeated teams and since it was the innaguaral year of the BCS that ensuing controversy would have been a major black eye.
Heck, it could have ended the BCS all that much sooner.
Heck, it could have ended the BCS all that much sooner.
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