Monday, October 22, 2007
A victory against Baylor last Saturday might have made Kansas bowl eligible, but it was the 19-14 triumph against Colorado on Saturday that assured the Jayhawks their spot in the postseason.
Kansas was not selected for a bowl game after finishing 6-6 last season. Although bowl eligible, 6-6 teams must wait behind all teams with winning records during at-large selections if they have not been selected by a conference-affiliated bowl game.
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Blair Kerkhoff of The Kansas City Star last week projected the Jayhawks in the Cotton Bowl, a New Year’s Day game. Kansas hasn’t played in a New Year’s Day contest since 1969.
Last year, 6-6 Oklahoma State filled the Big 12’s last bowl allocation when it was selected ahead of Kansas to play in the Independence Bowl.
The Big 12 Conference has contracts with eight bowl games, in order of selection: at least one Bowl Championship Series spot, and then the Cotton, Holiday, Gator (if it selects a Big 12 team), Alamo, Sun (if the Gator Bowl does not select a Big 12 team), Insight, Independence and Texas bowls.
With 10 Big 12 teams currently 4-4 or better, the conference could send a record number of teams to bowl games this season.
Local and national media have begun making bowl projections, most of which put the Jayhawks in games more prestigious than any they have played in since the 1969 Orange Bowl.
Blair Kerkhoff of The Kansas City Star last week projected the Jayhawks in the Cotton Bowl, a New Year’s Day game. Kansas hasn’t played in a New Year’s Day contest since 1969.
Ivan Maisel of ESPN.com predicted Kansas would play against Auburn in the Cotton Bowl, which has a contract with the Southeastern Conference too. His ESPN.com colleague Mark Schlabach said Kansas would play in the Holiday Bowl against USC, but Scout.com saw Kansas playing California in the Holiday Bowl.
Associate Athletics Director Jim Marchiony said, “We have as much fun projecting as anybody, but you really can’t put too much stock in it because so many things can happen between now and the end of the season.”
But Marchiony said the Athletics Department was excited about the media attention and bowl projections.
“That people are making those predictions is very exciting because that is where you want the football program to be,” Marchiony said. “That is what we are all working for — BCS bowls and championships. We have seen the hard work pay off.”
Associate Athletics Director Mike Strauss said representatives from the Fiesta and Insight bowls had already visited Memorial Stadium this season and that more bowl-game representatives were expected at the Nebraska game less than two weeks from now.
— Edited by Chris Beattie
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