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Article: Nebraska, Rose Bowl make perfect couple
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 16, 2001
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So General Custer is going to the Rose Bowl. Imagine that. Not
that they don't deserve each other. And for its next act of
absurdity, the Bowl Championship Series will refloat the Titanic and
enter it in the America's Cup. Just after it gets an Emmy for Jim
Belushi.
We will not bother to sort out the geekish computations that allow
such things to happen because we saw the bodies. We saw the Nebraska
Cornhuskers spread out like cowpies across the prairie. We saw
Colorado, as a reward, then have to go beat Texas in Texas to
authenticate the obliteration of All Things Corn.
In the Southeastern Conference, we saw Tennessee stun Florida as
Colorado did Nebraska, then not be able to validate the ...