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Chris Dufresne's look at the season's college football bowl games
ESPN's "Octomom" family of networks hopes you enjoy this year's cavalcade of commercials and center snaps as it furiously tries to secure the two games it doesn't broadcast. Conspicuously missing from the lineup is Ohio State (12-0) vs. Louisiana Tech...
Tags: Georgia Bulldogs, Ohio State Buckeyes, Auburn Tigers, Minnesota Golden Gophers, College Football
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Is Northern Illinois' bowl bid a strength or weakness of the BCS?
Northern Illinois will become the first team from the Mid-American Conference to play in a BCS bowl when it faces Florida State in the Orange Bowl next month. Writers from around the Tribune Co. discuss whether the Huskies getting a BCS bowl berth is a...
Tags: Teddy Bridgewater, Illinois Fighting Illini, Ohio State Buckeyes, College Football, Big Ten Conference
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Northern Illinois in Orange Bowl? Eat Huskies' dust, Herbstreit!
WE RULE! All together now: Come on you Huskies, Fight you Huskies And win for NIU Or, as fellow Northern Illinois University alumnus Ned Colletti put it Monday morning, "Long overdue." The Huskies didn't need to change uniform numbers to...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Florida State University, Sports, College Football, Julia Roberts
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Only major bowl question: Can Northern Illinois steal a BCS bid?
Aren't you going to miss the Bowl Championship Series? (Don't email answer that). The college football selection system for bowl games that has been ordered to the junk heap after next season might have a couple of surprises left in it. Nebraska's...
Tags: Georgia Bulldogs, Southeastern Conference, Alabama Crimson Tide, Wisconsin Badgers, Sports
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No surprise: Notre Dame vs. Alabama in BCS title game
The final Bowl Championship Series standings on Sunday produced a lot of expected news and one big surprise. Notre Dame and Alabama, in what everyone knew was just a formality, finished first and second in the final standings and will meet Jan. 7 in...
Tags: Georgia Bulldogs, Illinois Fighting Illini, Minnesota Golden Gophers, College Football, Central Michigan Chippewas
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As usual, SEC claims ownership of BCS
ATLANTA -- No one down here in Southeastern Conference country was surprised Sunday when the final Bowl Championship Series standings confirmed Alabama would be playing Jan. 7 for the national title. The surprise is why the SEC isn't playing the SEC...
Tags: Fiesta Bowl, Georgia Bulldogs, Illinois Fighting Illini, Ohio State Buckeyes, Auburn Tigers
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Reports: Northern Illinois earns BCS berth to Orange Bowl
Well, sometimes the little guys do win. Northern Illinois has earned a Bowl Championship Series bowl bid, according to several media reports. The champions of the Mid-American Conference will play Florida State in the Orange Bowl. It will be the MAC's...
Tags: Georgia Bulldogs, Southeastern Conference, Sports, Wisconsin Badgers, Illinois Fighting Illini
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Times college football rankings: Five California schools make the list
Rankman has rarely been this excited about two recently "dropped out" teams playing on a Thursday night in Piscataway, N.J. The showdown between Rutgers and Louisville now features two teams representing three different conferences. Rutgers is joining the...
Tags: Fiesta Bowl, Georgia Bulldogs, Ohio State Buckeyes, Utah State Aggies, New Year's Day
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USC and Notre Dame prove that football rankings can be wacky business
Notre Dame began the season unranked in the Associated Press media poll and is now No. 1; USC started No.1 and is now unranked. Oops, sorry, and welcome to my jungle. Pro pundits can pick the New York Giants to win the Super Bowl and still be right when...
Tags: Georgia Bulldogs, Heisman Trophy, Cam Newton, College Football, UCLA Bruins
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Last Man Standing' on ABC
Click here to download TV listings for the week Nov. 25 - Dec. 1 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Undercover Boss: The CEO of Diamond Resorts International goes undercover for a second time in this new episode (8 p....
Tags: Stanford Cardinal, Denver Nuggets, ESPN (tv network), Pacific-12 Conference, Sports
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Chris Dufresne's top 10 college football moments for 2012 season
The end of this season means there's only a year left of the snaggle-toothed Bowl Championship Series, a cartel dreamed up by Satan that has been infuriating college football fans since 1998. We can't wait for the new four-team playoff starting in 2014...
Tags: Fiesta Bowl, Georgia Bulldogs, Heisman Trophy, College Football, UCLA Bruins
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Wait for it college football fans ... it's the ACC!
This column will be devoted almost entirely to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC earned the clear-out space in advance of Saturday night's enticing matchup of No. 10 Clemson at No. 4 Florida State. ABC trotted its "A" team to Tallahassee and ESPN...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Auburn Tigers, College Football, UCLA Bruins, Brian Kelly
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