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Article: Orange Bowl Sounds Like the Rose Bowl
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- December 9, 2002
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While there's no surprise about who's playing for the national title
in the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl has a matchup that looks more
suited for Pasadena than Miami.
The long-anticipated pairing of top-ranked Miami and No. 2 Ohio State
became official Sunday when the Fiesta Bowl were announced. The biggest
shock, however, came a few minutes later.
Iowa and Southern California will play in the Orange Bowl on Jan.
2 in a game that already has taken on a new nickname _ Rose Bowl East.
And Rose Bowl officials were a bit testy in discussing how their traditional
Big Ten-Pac-10 matchup ended up at a stadium 3,000 miles away.
"We learned a lot about ...