The Dec. 29 bowl matchup between Colorado State and Nevada is a far from ideal. Two Mountain West teams in playing each other in a bowl game? That’s a joke. According to ESPN, no two teams from the same conference have played each other in a postseason bowl game since the 1979 Orange Bowl, which pitted Big Eight foes Nebraska and Oklahoma against each other.
Regardless, what’s done is done, and CSU is back in a bowl game for the third year in a row.