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Teams (Iowa State, Kansas State) refusing to play bowl games.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:05 pm
Iowa State is 8-4 but announced their team voted to decline all bowl invitations.
Kansas State is 6-6 and did the same.
Is this the beginning of the end for bowl games?
Kansas State is 6-6 and did the same.
Is this the beginning of the end for bowl games?
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Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:06 pm to QBUMizzou
Most likely. Especially with draftees optioning out
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:06 pm to QBUMizzou
If you don’t have a coach, why play?
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:07 pm to QBUMizzou
Interstingly they are returning to what they started as
exhibition games with little meaning
exhibition games with little meaning
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:15 pm to QBUMizzou
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Is this the beginning of the end for bowl games?
hope so. bowls are worthless now. can the conference title games next.
change this shite playoff format to the BEST 12 teams. frick the autobids from shite teams. add BCS computers with SOS and quality wins.
that is how you fix this.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:21 pm to Fat Bastard
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change this shite playoff format to the BEST 12 teams. frick the autobids from shite teams.
Goldilocks number is six teams.
frick anybody bitching about making the top six.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:35 pm to Jake81
Don’t they miss out on practice time and money?
I don’t know the rules anymore
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:35 pm to QBUMizzou
It should be. No one cares about them
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:37 pm to Rohan Gravy
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Don’t they miss out on practice time and money? I don’t know the rules anymore
And the Big 12 just slapped them with hefty fines for opting out: $500,000.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:40 pm to Rohan Gravy
im even good with a top 8. 8 shoulda been max. this expanding from 4 to 12 was dumb with THIS SYSTEM.
conference title games were fine when you had to be top 2 or even top 4 as they can and DID help teams.
but now we do notr need them. teams wanna be healthy for playoff runs.
sECCG is worthless now. just name the regular season best record the champ like we used to do in the 80s.
conference title games were fine when you had to be top 2 or even top 4 as they can and DID help teams.
but now we do notr need them. teams wanna be healthy for playoff runs.
sECCG is worthless now. just name the regular season best record the champ like we used to do in the 80s.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:40 pm to QBUMizzou
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Is this the beginning of the end for bowl games?
There is too many anyway. I’d like to go back to the days of college football ending on New Years Day.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:41 pm to lsuson
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Most likely. Especially with draftees optioning out
Sounds more like they won’t have enough players
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:41 pm to QBUMizzou
Yep. End of coaches being able to be hired before end of season too
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:42 pm to QBUMizzou
What is the point of "bowl games" not associated with the CFP?
With the transfer portal as it is, you cant say its even team practice for the next year.
It used to be you at least wanted that extra game to get your players more experience. Now? Half those players will be gone to a different team.
With the transfer portal as it is, you cant say its even team practice for the next year.
It used to be you at least wanted that extra game to get your players more experience. Now? Half those players will be gone to a different team.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:50 pm to QBUMizzou
I'm a K-State alum (MS 1968) and agree with this decision even though we will have to pay the Big 12 fine of $500k. We have a new coach in Collin Kline who is the current Texas A&M OC and a former K-State QB. He will split time between the two schools by flying daily between Manhattan and College Station to continue coaching A&M in the playoffs and building his staff and recruiting for K-State. I'm very happy having Kline.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:54 pm to Rohan Gravy
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Don’t they miss out on practice time and money?
I don’t know the rules anymore
Yeah, and for the SEC we split the pot, so even a team that barely has a bowl record deciding to opt out hurts all of us financially. Glad to see the Big 12 is fining these teams. SEC should do the same.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 2:06 pm to QBUMizzou
Bowl games serve no point in the current landscape. The best players often opt out, a number of the others enter the transfer portal, and most programs lose money on them. No one gives a shite about some obscurely sponsored meaningless game in a random city.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 2:11 pm to BigTx
If you truly enjoy CFB you can love watching Toledo play Georgia Southern in Montgomery, AL in December.
It’s outstanding even if it doesn’t matter beyond pride.
It’s outstanding even if it doesn’t matter beyond pride.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 2:12 pm to QBUMizzou
Wish LSU refused also
Posted on 12/7/25 at 2:14 pm to Jake81
I disagree you are playing for next year. Extra practices go a long way for next year.
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