So we’re still trying to figure why these COLLEGE bowl games like the Insight Bowl (and really, the NCAA as a whole), looking for as much money and viewership as possible, would be so stupid to not only put, again, a  COLLEGE bowl game on the NFL Network, but place the game on a channel that barely reaches a fraction of the country. Perhaps they got a ton more than the ESPN family was offering … hey, didn’t the NHL do the same thing two different times? Insight Bowl folks, name us three hockey players outside of Sid Crosby …

Ok, off the tangent: For the second time in a week, the NFL Network is losing a battle publicly. First it relented by allowing the nation to see the Patriot’s 16th victory. Now it’s allowing much of the state of Oklahoma to see the Insight Bowl.

Can  you feel the excitement of the Indiana/Oklahoma State matchup, Cowboyland? We thought so.

Originally the NFL Network gorilla said it would only allow the Insight Bowl to be simulcast on Oklahoma City’s KUSI-TV. Why? NFL Network didn’t give a reason. NFL Network didn’t need to give one.  Why? Because it’s NFL Network. Duh.

Now NFL Network will allow Tulsa’s KOTV-TV to simulcast it as well, giving the state’s two biggest markets access to the game.

“We love having the NFL Network,” Cox Oklahoma TV President Dave Bialis said, we assume, sarcastically, ” but I just think they didn’t realize how big this game is for the coverage area of the state.”

Meanwhile, NFL Network will also allow Indianapolis FOX station WXIN to simulcast the game. WXIN’s signal spreads through Indianapolis and Bloomington.  The station is the only one in the state that will show the game on local television, and while that leaves much of Indiana without direct access (unless they have a digital signal with the NFL Network or a satellite dish) anyone living in Indiana (or has lived there) will tell you very few people outside of the Indianapolis Metro area cares much about Indiana University Football.