{"id":880,"date":"2011-12-05T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2011-12-05T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:26:22","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/oops\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A decade ago, Iowa State gift-wrapped a bowl game for Alabama when a field goal attempt went directly over the upright<\/a> with 45 seconds remaining. The Independence Bowl trophy is probably gathering dust behind Alabama’s national championship hardware.<\/p>\n

This year, another Iowa State game yielded an ultimate result of sending Alabama to the BCS championship game in a regular-season divisional rematch with LSU. (Ironically, or naturally, it was because of another missed field goal directly over the upright, this time on Oklahoma State’s part.)<\/p>\n

Iowa State’s reward for breaking the system? The Big 12’s booby prize of the 2010s, a trip to cold and expensive New York City for a game in Yankee Stadium \u2014 to be precise, New Yankee Stadium, without even the football mythos of the Army-Notre Dame<\/a> or early NFL games.<\/p>\n

There are, of course, many other things to be said about this year’s BCS matchups and the positioning of the Big 12 as a whole, nearly all of them bad. But there’s no need to go into those here. None of this, though, helps the conspiracy theory that some entities may have a vested interest in seeing the Big 12 disappear.<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Rutgers fans already hate this game.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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