Cotton Bowl Seeks BCS Inclusion - Cotton Bowl officials hope to secure BCS status by 2011. Jerry Jones' new 80,000-seat stadium in Arlington, Texas gives the Cotton Bowl needed leverage.

Here's this writer's take: The Cotton Bowl should have been a BCS game from the beginning.

Media reports say the Cotton Bowl is considered a cold-weather game because January weather in Texas is cold. That makes sense, but on the other hand, we are talking about a football game. Aren't late-season football games supposed to be cold?

It seems like all of the NFL playoff games are played in much colder weather than the Cotton Bowl.

The Cotton Bowl is a venerable tradition, one of college football's original bowl games. The Cotton Bowl should have been included in the BCS to begin with, regardless of the weather or the stadium.