With apologies to Alabama, which still may put together a perfect regular season, the world of college football, a.k.a. the Bowl Championship Series, has turned into a match race: Southern California vs. Texas. This appears to be a replay of the 2003 Fiesta Bowl when No. 1 Miami and No. 2 Ohio State staged a matchup between unbeatens that took ... (Full article: 816 words)

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