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Originally Posted by Cochise
The best team is supposed to get the bowl berth, although this is of course was a foreign concept for Beakers back when they followed football
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That's not how bowls work. It's never how they've worked nor how they were intended to work although some of the qualifiers inserted into the BCS system in recent years have tried to facilitate that end.
Unfortunately it fails as often as it succeeds. Hence for every Utah and Boise we get turd balls like Hawaii and Northern Ill who put up even less of a fight than whichever helmet school would have taken their place had the bowls just been allowed to pick whomever they want.
Bowls were and are games designed to make $ for the bowls putting them on and they historically invite teams that they feel will best get them to that end goal.