That was huge at the time. America was rooting for the Cinderella...the ultimate Cinderella... It was the greatest feel good story in CFB history and Aggies had to frick it up because they were tone deaf to the nation living out there on that College Station outpost on the outskirts of civilization.

Its impossible to put into words how bad K-State was the preceding decades...think Temple...maybe 80s Oregon Stats, shite Northwestern going to the Rose Bowl in the 90s made them look like Ohio State compared to K-State.

K-State was so bad they went 6-27 in 3 years in the 70's and were still put on probation by the NCAA for cheating. They couldn't even cheat to a 25% winning %.

(While all of America was rooting against you Aggies, did you go to Mary Lou Retton's house after the game and piss on her Gold Medal? Did you break Keri Strug's other ankle with Nancy's lead pipe? Did you flip he bird to he 1989 Olympic Hockey team?

After that cheating scandal where K-state went 6-27, they went another 5 years without a winning season which resulted in their first ever bowl bid in school history in 1982 where they scored 3 points against 6-5 Wisconsin and lost.

The next two years K-State won 3 games each year against 1-8-2 TCU and then opened 1985 with loses to two 1AA schools.

In 1989 Bill Snyder took over a program that had the worst record in NCAA Division I-A (FBS) history at the time and had gone 27 consecutive games without a win (0–26–1) dating to October 1986.

From 1935 to 1988, the last year before Snyder's arrival, Kansas State had won 137 games in total.

Since the 1982 Independence Bowl season, the Wildcats had won a total of seven games. Snyder then presided over one of the most successful rebuilding projects in the history of college athletics.

And you fricking self-absorbed, obtuse, isolated cult Aggies had to frick it all up. For what? You weren't going to play for the title.

This is the genesis of hundreds of thousands hating Aggie to this day. You fricked the nation of a great story only to fart out a boring loss in the Sugar Bowl.

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Posted by karmew32

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Posted on 4/25/22 at 9:00 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa

The CFB equivalent of Tom Watson losing the 2009 British Open to Stewart Cink (who never led during regulation).

These three things make it additionally more painful:

1. Kansas State was favored by 17.
2. Kansas State controlled the game, taking the lead on their first drive and never even letting the Aggies tie it until the final minute of regulation.
3. Instead of Kansas State, we got to see a Florida State team with their backup QB in the title game.

Although I think 13-9 was more painful for WVU than 1998 was for KSU, I think the 1998 Big 12 CCG was the most devastating loss for neutral fans in CFB history. It had all the elements: the sentimental favorite being heavily favored and controlling the game only to lose somehow and the team that benefited the most being much less appealing,

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