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BIG WINNERS: Universities may have won the glory at the Rose and Freedom bowls, but Orange County hotels won the big bucks. . . . For the first time, all four bowl teams stayed in Orange County--Washington at the Anaheim Marriott, Iowa at the Hyatt Newporter, Colorado State at the Hyatt Regency Irvine and Oregon at the Westin South Coast Plaza--and the press corps for both games camped at the Red Lion in Costa Mesa. . . . The Freedom Bowl alone yielded $34 million for local businesses, tourism officials estimate.

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