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Article: Bowl Week and the Presidential Race: More in Common Than You Think.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2007
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Traditionally, the week after Christmas is Bowl Week, a bonanza of largely meaningless college football games, from the obscure PapaJohns.com Bowl to the august Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
This year, the bowls will have competition for the nation's attention from politics, with the day after Christmas marking the start of a frenzied week-long run-up to the January 3 Iowa caucuses (which will actually convene just as the Orange Bowl kicks off).
It's quite fitting. Both clunky and dysfunctional relics of an outdated era, the college bowl system and the presidential primary process have more in common than you might think:
* College football has the Hawaii Warriors, a ...