I'd love to beat the **** out of Mack Brown and the Tar Heels.

Cincinnati and beat them by 50

Wouldn't mind running the score up on a blue blood like USC or stay close to home in the Cotton and make another statement against OU to establish wins over both of our biggest regional recruiting opponents for the upcoming year.

lil_frog8 said:

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Wouldn't mind running the score up on a blue blood like USC or stay close to home in the Cotton and make another statement against OU to establish wins over both of our biggest regional recruiting opponents for the upcoming year.

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I can't understand why anyone would want to play in the Cotton Bowl.

dave94 said:

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lil_frog8 said:

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Wouldn't mind running the score up on a blue blood like USC or stay close to home in the Cotton and make another statement against OU to establish wins over both of our biggest regional recruiting opponents for the upcoming year.

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I can't understand why anyone would want to play in the Cotton Bowl.

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Sure beats the hell out of the Texas Bowl or the Independence Bowl or... and I hate to relive this... the GalleryFurniture.com bowl..

Orange would be nice as a change of pace, but the cotton is a big friggin game

I appreciate the Cotton Bowl for its history and the college football world has rightfully placed it just below the big boys. But this year we deserve the bigger and better, and I hope that it's the beginning of EXPECTING to be in the CFP or major bowls every year. We don't need to keep going to Arlington, been there done that. Time to be more on the national stage.

I prefer to go to the Orange Bowl this year, too. But in saying the Cotton Bowl has been placed "just below the big boys" shows you don't follow college football closely.

The Cotton is part of the New Years Six. It is on equal footing with the Orange, Sugar, Rose, Peach, and Fiesta.

The Cotton is not only the game that means most to us from a historical perspective, it is a MAJOR BOWL today.

Again, My preference is for the Orange Bowl this year. But anyone discounting the significance of the Cotton Bowl, and acting like it's beneath us, doesn't understand college football.

I do understand that the Cotton Bowl is, deservedly so, a New Years Day game. But it's still not the Rose, Sugar, Orange or Fiesta. It has been a very important bowl game for us in terms of recruiting and being in our backyard to increase fan attendance, but nobody will ever claim it holds the same prestige as the others.

I loved beating the hell outta OU there in Johnny's first season, but we can aspire to more and should, always.

Edit to add: The Peach Bowl? The fact that it's a NYD bowl doesn't help the argument.

#5 is a cursed spot. After playoff talk and hype, the dejected players get a consolation game they're told they should win easily. It's a recipe for an upset.

As long as it's no team from the little 12, I'm good!

It may be a NY6 bowl, but it hasn't been on the Rose/Fiesta/Orange/Sugar tier in terms of prominence in a while... the Peach even more so (we played Duke in the peach in 2013)

Sip

I love kicking the **** outa those ******s

dave94 said:

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lil_frog8 said:

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Wouldn't mind running the score up on a blue blood like USC or stay close to home in the Cotton and make another statement against OU to establish wins over both of our biggest regional recruiting opponents for the upcoming year.

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I can't understand why anyone would want to play in the Cotton Bowl.

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Doubt fans will be in the stands ,

If we don't make the playoffs, we're going to the Orange Bowl. I was looking forward to exposing the weak Miami run defense, but NC did it yesterday. We should be able to handle anything the ACC sends us, but I'd really like Ohio State or Notre Dame.

The loser of the Notre Dame/Clemson game.

As long as it is not Big12 team, ByU, Coastal Carolina or Cinncinnati I am fine.

1. Orange Bowl - Miami
2. Fiesta Bowl - USC
3. Cotton - ISU

Orange Bowl against anybody. No idea why Ags would want to play in the Cotton instead of national exposure in Florida. Cotton Bowl is so yesterday. Time for something new.

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I prefer to go to the Orange Bowl this year, too. But in saying the Cotton Bowl has been placed "just below the big boys" shows you don't follow college football closely.

The Cotton is part of the New Years Six. It is on equal footing with the Orange, Sugar, Rose, Peach, and Fiesta.

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Given that SEC slots sugar & orange above cotton, they are not on equal footing. It's still a major bowl & huge deal for program to get to

Sugar Rose
Orange
Cotton Fiesta Peach
Citrus

Orange vs anyone

What helps us recruit? Hype. I want the most hyped up program available from another region:

-Loser of acccg (unlikely)
-Penn st, Michigan, wiscy, maybe Iowa
-Miami is still a name
-USCw or Oregon

Clemson... In the playoffs.

I'd love to beat the crap outta OU in the Cotton Bowl to establish dominance in the region.

Get Off My Lawn said:

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#5 is a cursed spot. After playoff talk and hype, the dejected players get a consolation game they're told they should win easily. It's a recipe for an upset.

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That is so right, examples in the not so distant past. OU/Bama, t.u/Georgia (dawgs just went trough the motions)
t.u./ Utah( Utah just mailed it in. Little further back, a couple of Sun Bowls, one where USC shouldn't have bothered to show up, another when SMU beat Alabama. Just thought of maybe the ultimate example, when we beat Kansas State in the Big 12 title game and they stunk up the Alamodome. That's on the coaches to see that doesn't happen.

It can go the other way, LSU goes to a NY6 bowl. shows that Florida directional school what happens when you play the big boys, and lays the groundwork for a national championship.

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Cincinnati and beat them by 50

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We dont beat Anybody by 50. Lol.
We call off the dogs in the 3rd quarter and let the other team score to feel better about themselves.

Orange Bowl against anyone. While we do recruit against OU, let's show the kids in Florida what we are about. Florida is ripe with talent and Jimbo knows the key HS coaches in the state from his days at FSU.

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lil_frog8 said:

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Wouldn't mind running the score up on a blue blood like USC or stay close to home in the Cotton and make another statement against OU to establish wins over both of our biggest regional recruiting opponents for the upcoming year.

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I can't understand why anyone would want to play in the Cotton Bowl.

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Yeah you're right... we're so above that.

Our fan base comes off at entitled brats sometimes

The biggest problem with the Cotton Bowl is that, when it isn't a host for the CFP, it has a BDF tie-in.

And then to compound that issue, when OU has undeservedly gotten into the CFP, you end up with an absolute garbage BDF team or some G5 poser. That just does nothing to garner any excitement.

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Orange Bowl against anybody. No idea why Ags would want to play in the Cotton instead of national exposure in Florida. Cotton Bowl is so yesterday. Time for something new.

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Doesn't the Cotton make it easy to have recruits out to watch practices? Can't do that elsewhere.

Have we ever played in the rose bowl.

Bowl game in Florida or Arizona. I want good weather.

Kozmozag said:

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Have we ever played in the rose bowl.

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Rose Bowl Stadium: yes, 2017
Rose Bowl Game: no

these threads also confirm alot of our fans haze zero clue how the bowl selection process works

Muy said:

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gopitt said:

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Orange Bowl against anybody. No idea why Ags would want to play in the Cotton instead of national exposure in Florida. Cotton Bowl is so yesterday. Time for something new.

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Doesn't the Cotton make it easy to have recruits out to watch practices? Can't do that elsewhere.

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I'm sure covidbros will say no to that

If the opponent in the cotton wasn't a BDF team, I'm sure a lot more Aggies would be for playing there if we don't make the playoffs

Honestly, playing Miami isn't very exciting now either after Mack brown pantsed them