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Sunday, we learned that Baylor football will face Boise State in the 2016 Motel 6 Cactus Bowl<\/a> in Phoenix (Dec. 27, 9:15 p.m. CT, ESPN).<\/p>\n Over the last couple of weeks, some questioned whether or not Baylor should\u00a0accept this bowl bid, wondering aloud\u00a0if we might be better off just moving our focus on to other things (like our pair of top-10-ranked basketball teams<\/a>, or the 2017 football season). As for me, I’m glad that our\u00a0Bears\u00a0are going to play their\u00a0bowl game.<\/p>\n Why? Because of our students. Most importantly, because so many members of this year’s\u00a0team are excited\u00a0to play one more game with their brothers, wearing the green and gold.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what we worked for,\u201d junior Travon Blanchard told the Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe worked hard to get to that bowl game.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s something we\u2019ve earned,\u201d echoed senior Aiavion Edwards. \u201cIt\u2019s something we look forward to playing in each and every year.\u201d<\/p>\n And the players aren’t the only Baylor students who get the unique experience each bowl\u00a0trip provides. There’s also the Golden Wave Band, the Baylor spirit squads, and the students who take advantage of whatever crazy road trip Student Activities puts together this year. (Last year’s trip included a 20-hour bus trip each way to and from Orlando, a ticket to the game, one night at a hotel, and a day at Walt Disney World — all for just $150.)<\/p>\n Then, of course, we as fans get to enjoy seeing these guys — particularly the seniors, who we have cheered on for four years\u00a0— play one more time. (If you want to join our\u00a0students in Phoenix to root on\u00a0our Bears, tickets are available through the Baylor Ticket Office; find all the details on tickets, travel options, events around the game and more at BaylorBears.com’s Bowl Central<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Sunday, we learned that Baylor football will face Boise State in the 2016 Motel 6 Cactus Bowl in Phoenix (Dec. 27, 9:15 p.m. CT, ESPN). Over the last couple of weeks, some questioned whether or not Baylor should\u00a0accept this bowl bid, wondering aloud\u00a0if we might be better off just moving our focus on to other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/del><\/del>Sic \u2019em, bowl-bound Bears!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"