Why would the Gator Bowl take Nebraska over Mizzou? Is it simply b/c they travel better? Wouldn’t the Gator Bowl be better for Mizzou than playing Northwestern in the Alamo?

Mizzou needs to establish a record of bringing large numbers to bowl games. The Cotton Bowl was a good start. Alamo will probably be a better bowl for recruiting since we draw so well from Texas high schools. The more visible we are in Texas, the better. Of course it would help to beat Texas once in awhile.

Let’s go out and win on Saturday, and let the Fiesta begin.

The gator is taking nebraska because they are a better draw and have a long tradition, not a one hit wonder like missouri

Confused, it has been pretty widely reported that the Gator Bowl would take NU over Mizzou or Okie State because of the crazy fans NU has…they travel in numbers that would make MU or OSU drool. There is also a pretty good chance that Florida State will end up in the Gator Bowl, and the people in Jacksonville are excited about a rematch of some really big games between the two programs.

The Alamo Bowl would be fine. It’s the lame Northwestern matchup that sucks. That’s the best Big 10 team they could come up with?

Northwestern isn’t all that bad, after all, they could have scheduled a rematch with southeast missouri state! oh, that’s right, they aren’t eligble.

I say beat Oklahoma and go to the Fiesta. Since that’s really unlikely, go to the Alamo and beat the crap out of Northwestern. Half a loaf is better than none.

Once again MU will get paired with an inferior opponent, and we will never know how we would have performed against a big time team outside the Big 12. Oh what could have been! I’m betting that every Big 12 team wins their bowl game, except Nebraska.

Why are we acting like we’ll just roll over Northwestern. They’re a heckuva lot better than KU, and we know how that turned out when we went in thinking it would be great to crush them for the 2nd time in 2 years. Any bowl game could go either way - we’d be favored but whoop-t-do.