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[QUOTE="Moontan, post: 437615, member: 166"]
I heard their AD in an interview yesterday.  They never turned down an invitation.
He asked for some time to discuss it with the coach and school.
They still believed that they had a shot at two other bowls with what they considered to be higher caliber matchups.
At one point the Independence Bowl just told him that they'd moved on to the MAC.
 
It was clear that the AD never expected Northern Illinois to jump into the top 16 and cause the Big XII spots to get re-shuffled.
 
Without any overall oversight of the game this is what can happen.  If there was an entity that looked out for the game and checked all of the matchups before they became official this wouldn't have happened.  It's crazy that a 9-3 team with the highest scoring offense and 2nd ranked total offense will be sitting home watching 6-6, 7-5 and 8-4 teams duke it out in the bowls.  Sagarin has them at number 47 (with a weak schedule - 109), having beaten Illinois and Virginia.
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