Oklahoma State will win the Camping World Bowl or lose the Alamo Bowl or blast somebody in the Liberty Bowl later this year, and we will all tune in and pay attention and act like an exhibition game means something more than what it actually means, which is not really all that much at all.
The path to get to that exhibition game, however, is not meaningless whatsoever. It signifies a decade and a half of consistency at a level other programs aren’t performing at. And while it’s easy to make fun of the fact that some bowl projections have OSU in the Houston Bowl against Liberty (), we shouldn’t miss these three things when we talk about OSU becoming bowl eligible for the 14th consecutive trip around the sun.