WWTBAM Bored

After watching Oregon play so horribly against a mediocre-at-best Arizona squad, as this another #2 team gives away its chance at playing in the BCS title game, I am left to wonder whether any team has the requisite desire.

Unlikely that LSU stumbles in its remaining regular season games, though they could sleepwalk to a loss in the SEC Championship game.

Right now, the Big XII seemingly is in the best position possible: it is nearly guaranteed that either Kansas, Oklahoma, or Missouri will be playing for the national title.

Who woulda thunk prior to the season that the most-important regular season game would have been Kansas-Missouri? Clearly not the Jayhawk Athletic Department, who now must be kicking themselves for giving away home field advantage for this crucial game.

On the bonus side, I will be in KC for this game. I am guessing that the College Gameday crew will find themselves at Arrowhead as well.

Given that it's only 40 miles from Lawrence to KC, that won't be much of a home game. Maybe GW will finally be able to watch a Kansas sports team on TV live. Doesn't matter where KU is ranked, or how important the game might be, the local stations always seem to find some barely visible regional connection in order to show two utterly worthless teams in action.

gsabc wrote:Given that it's only 40 miles from Lawrence to KC, that won't be much of a home game..

I am not sure how they handled the ticket distribution for the game at Arrowhead. I should ask my brother. Usually, Chief season ticket holders get a chance to buy tickets for other games at the stadium. I know that when Okie State moved its game with Nebraska to Arrowhead several years back, they divided the tickets evenly between the schools.

Anyway, Kansas went from likely having 80%-90% of the crowd, on their own field, to probably having a split crowd (KC having lots of Mizzou fans) on a field where they haven't played since 2005.

My guess is that Kansas figured that its share of proceeds from a near sell-out 70,000+ stadium would be more than keeping most of the proceeds from a lesser-attended game in a 40,000 (max?) stadium.

It will be an interesting game. Missouri seems more talented. Kansas seems like a team of destiny (have to make hay during the 2 years that OU and Texas are off the schedule).

In the end, I see Kansas winning because Gary Pinkel always finds ways to lose games for the North Division title.