Quote from: WUPHF on November 01, 2024, 09:41:49 AM

Quote from: eph289 on November 01, 2024, 08:03:03 AMHard to imagine that anyone at Wheaton rather go to the bowl game, but it is possible.

Also, I am not sure anything becomes typical after only three occurrences, but that Missouri team had the best effort for a CCIW team in one of three burger bowl games played, losing by one touchdown in 2022. 

It was an Illinois team that was scoreless at the half last season and only scored after the game was mostly over.

I think it has been great having the Washington University Bears play football in the CCIW.  I hope they will still schedule us if they have non-conference games in the future.  I don't know why the CCIW chose to end their participation. 

I made the Missouri reference because I find it ironic that the conference name does not exactly match the geography.  I guess I like things to be in order, like the Big Ten Conference should change their name if they have around 20 teams!

I don't know if anyone cares about that bowl game that the CCIW plays in, but here's a thought for Wheaton fans to consider.  The Missouri team that we usually send to that game has typically been blown out. But does anyone think the Wheaton kids would have a better experience at that level, compared to taking another loss in the first or second round of the playoffs?  If I were a senior playing my last college game, I would like to remember it as a win, but playoffs are designed so that only one team gets that memory.