While driving around yesterday and listening to the local sports shows talk about the Kansas State-Rutgers game, I thought about how ironic this game was and began to empathize with Rutgers' situation.
Comparing KSU in 1998 to Rutgers this year:
- Breakout year with big wins putting them in the national spotlight and talk of possible (albeit slim) national title hopes
- Close overtime loss late in season against another 10+ win team costs them the conference title
- Not winning the conference title causes them not only to get snubbed by the BCS, but by the big non-BCS bowls as well, dropping them down to a bowl game against an unranked team
So, yeah, I can feel for Rutgers this year... though I do still want to beat them, as it would cap a surprisingly good first year for Ron Prince