Word: bowles
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...Coach Lou Holtz, for one. Even if, this year, the wire services actually named Miami, not Southern Mississippi, as the best team in college football. Holtz's "Fighting Irish," who were ranked first until a November loss to Miami, had just flogged the new champ, Colorado, in the Orange Bowl. Yet four polls gave top ranking to Miami, which had also lost one game. "You can justify why Miami won it," Holtz said. "What you can't justify is why we didn't." He pointed to the unique toughness of his school's schedule: Notre Dame played eight...
...colleges play a dozen or fewer games each season -- and in a system without an organized play-off structure -- controversy is bound to boil. If the national champ were determined by popular vote, Notre Dame would have won this year. Twice as many viewers tuned in to the Orange Bowl as to the Sugar Bowl, in which Miami defeated Alabama. An ABC phone-in vote for the top team, taken during the Sugar Bowl, rang up a 52% Notre Dame landslide...
...Bowling for dollars is indeed big business. Notre Dame and Colorado each picked up $4.1 million at the Orange Bowl. The Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences earned $5.5 each at the Rose Bowl. A play-off would mean even more money, but for only a few teams. Two years ago, Division I schools voted 98-13 against the idea...
...number of people who have gone to Antarctica is smaller than the attendance at this year's Rose Bowl game, but those few have had a disproportionately large impact. Because plants and animals, along with human outposts, are largely confined to the 2% of Antarctica that is ice-free for part of the year, the world's most sparsely populated continent is, paradoxically, overcrowded. The Antarctic Peninsula is particularly in demand, with 13 stations; King George Island, one of the South Shetland Islands, is home to an additional eight. Planes, helicopters, snowmobiles, trucks and bulldozers are in constant operation throughout...
...first clear the play-off hurdles, but their outlook is promising. Grouped with New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Minnesota, the 49ers have already beaten the first three this year, and they routed the Vikings in last year's play-offs. According to professional bookmakers, the most likely Super Bowl pairing would pit the 49ers against the Denver Broncos, with Montana and Co. favored by 10 points...