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I wouldn't expect Utah fans to know this because their team sucked pond water in the 80s and 90s, but the Holiday Bowl for a while had an arrangement to take the #2 Big 10 team. Iowa in 91 and Ohio State in 93 were 1-loss teams ranked in the top 5. The Holiday Bowl already had a pretty good thing going before they left the WAC.
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11-10-2008, 07:46 PM
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11-10-2008, 07:48 PM
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I'm surprised so many of you are falling for this obvious trolling. No one in their right mind would call the Holiday Bowl of the '80's & '90's anything other than a VERY good bowl unless he was either 1) extremely stupid or 2) trying to get a rise out of a certain group of people.
In this case, I think it's safe to assume both.
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11-10-2008, 07:59 PM
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Holiday Bowl payout: $2,130,000; Sugar Bowl payout: $17,000,000; Feista Bowl payout: $17,000,000. The major bowls are played on January 1 or thereafter, and have traditionally featured conference champions and, lately, non-BCS undefeateds. The Holiday was a real backwater bowl in 1984. Just look who came to play BYU. It was only six years old in 1984.
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11-10-2008, 08:10 PM
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The Holiday Bowl is still better than what the MWC gets. The Vegas Bowl is increasing the payout to $1,000,000; Emerald Bowl is $850,000; New Mexico Bowl $750,000; Armed Forces Bowl $600,000. Yes, the BCS bowls are a great payday for a conference, but non-BCS teams still have to jump through the hoops that the BCS sets up in order to get there. That is the problem.
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11-10-2008, 08:12 PM
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I'm not saying that before 1994 Utah's football program and tradition matched BYU's.
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11-10-2008, 08:16 PM
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11-10-2008, 08:25 PM
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This message is now revised to include the final AP rankings.
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Of the 27 games listed, 14 featured ranked teams v ranked teams. 13 of the games have had at least 1 top 10 team. Top 15 teams have filled 26 of the 64 total slots. The Holiday Bowl is a very good bowl, and has been for a while. In the 80's, the WAC opponent was ranked in every single game other than 82, 84 and 85 (all games in which BYU was ranked). |
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