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RE: Did UTEP turn down the Mountain West?
(07-05-2020 10:17 PM)esayem Wrote:  Don’t forget the WAC 16 secured an affiliation with the Cotton Bowl.

That affiliation only ended up lasting 2-3 yrs though.
07-06-2020 08:03 AM
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RE: Did UTEP turn down the Mountain West?
(07-06-2020 08:03 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  
(07-05-2020 10:17 PM)esayem Wrote:  Don’t forget the WAC 16 secured an affiliation with the Cotton Bowl.

That affiliation only ended up lasting 2-3 yrs though.

True, about as long as the WAC 16!
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RE: Did UTEP turn down the Mountain West?
The Cotton Bowl got demoted during the Alliance and BCS. It still had prestige but it wasn’t the Cotton Bowl prior to the BCS era. That mistake got corrected in the CFP and now the Cotton reclaimed its status as a major bowl.

The WAC lost the Fiesta, Holiday and Cotton bowls in a span of 20 years.
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RE: Did UTEP turn down the Mountain West?
(07-06-2020 11:45 AM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  The Cotton Bowl got demoted during the Alliance and BCS. It still had prestige but it wasn’t the Cotton Bowl prior to the BCS era. That mistake got corrected in the CFP and now the Cotton reclaimed its status as a major bowl.

The WAC lost the Fiesta, Holiday and Cotton bowls in a span of 20 years.

"In 2010, the Cotton Bowl Classic moved to the new Cowboys Stadium (now AT&T Stadium) in Arlington, as part of a bid by bowl officials to make it part of the BCS in 2011. The Cotton Bowl had recently been remodeled and expanded to over 92,000 seats as part of a long-term drive to regain major status for the bowl game. However, Dallas' frequently cold January weather had been a longstanding concern, and was thought to have hampered any prospect of upgrading the game to the BCS. In contrast, the new stadium would offer top amenities and a retractable roof.[11] A new four-year agreement between the BCS and ESPN had forestalled any possibility of the Cotton Bowl Classic joining the BCS until 2015 at the earliest."

Quote above from Wikipedia shows that the Cotton Bowl had to move to Jerry Jones Cowboy Stadium to get relevant again after the Fiesta Bowl replaced it in the original big four of the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowl sequence from years ago. The CFP has also made the Peach Bowl relevant again too in the Georgia Dome. 07-coffee3
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