The Oklahoma State Cowboys will go to a bowl game for the first time since 2023 — assuming they don’t sneak into the College Football Playoff.
The Cowboys (6-3, 4-2 in Big 12) clinched a bowl game with their 66-28 win over Kansas State. There are seven bowl-eligible teams in the conference entering Week 11 and at least one will head to the CFP when the season ends.
That leaves the Cowboys in a pool of teams that could be selected for seven affiliated bowl games. The selection order for those games is the Alamo Bowl, the Pop-Tarts Bowl, the Texas Bowl, the Liberty Bowl, the Cactus Bowl, the ESPN Events pool of games and the Independence Bowl.
Several sites projected where the Cowboys could end up this week.
One ESPN analyst connected the Cowboys to the Orlando, Fla., based bowl, which is second in the Big 12 pecking order. There they would face Wake Forest. That is usually based on how teams finish in the conference, but selections are also at the bowl game’s discretion. Given how exciting the Cowboys are on offense, the Pop-Tarts Bowl — which the Big 12 has won every year since it started — would be highly interested in selecting them.
OSU would probably need to win out to earn sel...