Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only the represenatives of Bowl games could do as good a job scheduling their games as the Ivy League. For the third consecutive season, the Ivy League race went down to the final week with the number one and two teams battling head-to-head...
...attained the No. 1 spot in the college rankings. Head coach Gerry Faust, who during his tenure from 1981 to 1985 racked up a lackluster 30-26-1 record, had let the Irish unravel. Once courted like a prom queen in postseason play, Notre Dame appeared in just two bowl games: Liberty (1983) and Aloha (1984). The team, it seemed, was fading from national prominence...
...needed if the Irish are to speed by their two remaining opponents. They must deal with a weakened but still formidable Penn State and, in their final game, with No. 2-ranked U.S.C. If successful, the Irish will probably play currently unbeaten West Virginia in either the Fiesta Bowl or the Gator Bowl, a contest that could decide the national championship. But overconfidence is not in Holtz's playbook. Says he: "Right now -- I don't care what the polls say -- we're not the best in the country. But maybe we can be by the end of the season...
...thing, it's cold. Take last year's Game when players left the field with frostbite and fans left the stands kind of tipsy. Lambeau Field didn't hold a candle to Yale Bowl that day. For another thing, it's Harvard and Yale alumni. They don't wear parkas and they don't drink beer. For them it's fur and whiskey sours...
...Elis may be set to avenge last year's defeat at Yale Bowl, but Harvard is playing at home in a year when it already knows it's been a major disappointment. Never has a team with no shot at a title had more to lose in The Game than Harvard does this year...