re: Bowl records by conference (final)

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Edit 3: For clarification, you only have had one "major" bowl win during your lifetime, and it's marginal at best. The 1985 Cotton Bowl. Fortunately you're not younger than 28 because then you really would have absolutely no argument for having had a bowl win of any importance in your lifetime.

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1. We weren't in the 1985 Cotton Bowl. We beat Auburn in the 1986 Cotton Bowl.

2. We beat Notre Dame in the 1988 Cotton Bowl. Maybe you forgot. That was the one in which Tim Brown got his towel stolen by one of the 12th Man kickoff members.

3. I guess the 65-14 win in the 1990 Holiday Bowl against #9 BYU and Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer doesn't qualify as a major bowl win either.

4. In my lifetime, we've never lost a bowl game to a Big Ten team not named Ohio State or Penn State.

5. In my lifetime, TCU has played 7 bowl games against BCS conference schools. They won 2.

The fact of the matter is simple: In my lifetime, TCU was a marginal at best Southwest Conference team. When they had to play in a conference that wasn't the WAC or Mountain West, they went 7-5. Hard to get 10-12 wins a year when you don't play New Mexico, Colorado State, UNLV, and Wyoming every year. To your credit though, you finally ended all the talk about how blue turf was unbeatable in Boise, ID.