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Article: WACKY RIDE BEGINS WITH NORTH TEXAS IN NEW ORLEANS BOWL.(Weekend Playbook)

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December 15, 2001
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Byline: Randy Holtz News Staff Writer

Bizarre stuff, this college football bowl schedule.

It has a BCS controversy. It has Colorado and Oregon up in arms. And in this age of over-the-top hyperbole, it has 25 - 25! - bowl games.

But you know what might be the most bizarre thing about this postseason schedule?

North Texas is on it, right there at the top against Colorado State in the inaugural New Orleans Bowl on Tuesday night at the Superdome (6, ESPN2).

The New Orleans Bowl will kick off a bowl flurry that won't end until Miami and Nebraska play in the Bowl Championship Series national championship game at the Rose Bowl on ...

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