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12.02.2008 12:48 pm
Missouri bowl outlook: Fiesta or Alamo
Reid Laymance
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Big 12 bowls are falling into line although nothing can be official until Sunday evening.

Here’s where it stands for Missouri: Beat Oklahoma and its the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5. Lose and it is looking more and more like a trip to San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29, according to conversations with officials at each of the bowls affiliated with the Big 12.

Here’s how it ends up that way with the Big 12 teams and the league’s bowl affiliations.

Oklahoma (assuming it beats Missouri) and Texas will get spots in the BCS bowls.

Then the rest of the selection order goes like this:

Cotton: Texas Tech

Holiday: It looks like Oklahoma State will get the nod over Missouri, thanks in part to the head-to-head win over the Tigers earlier this year. A slight chance this could change but it looks like the San Diego bowl would take a 9-3 OSU team over a 9-4 Missouri team.

Gator: The Jacksonville game takes a Big 12 team and goes with Nebraska.

Alamo: It’s Missouri vs. a Big Ten team.

Sun: Out of the Big 12 rotation now that the Gator has taken Nebraska.

Insight: Kansas.


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