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...Rose - Orange - Gator - Sugar - Cotton - Liberty - Fiesta bowl as millions will sit mesmerized in front of the tube watching the perennials (USC, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama....) meet. It is big-time football, the big schedule and the big loot, with a few exceptions (like coach Joe Paterno of Penn State) the guy on the field, the ice or the hardcourt gets lost. Big-time football, big-time money, who cares that Oklahoma is on probation and won't play post-season this year because of recruiting violations or that it is no mean feat to graduate a starting backfield...
...Michael a job." Alas, Fairbanks added, he had "no vacancies." Bob Devaney, athletic director of Big Eight Runner-up Nebraska, was ready to accept the conference championship for the Cornhuskers because "if Jackson had played for our team, we might have won the title, too." Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, whose Nittany Lions lost to the Sooners 14-0 in the Sugar Bowl, wanted no tainted glory. "Our players and the Oklahoma players know who won the game," he said...
President Billy Sullivan and his search committee were set back this weekend when Penn State coach Joe Paterno rejected a one-million dollar offer for the deal role...
...next man to be considered may be retired Nebraska coach Bob Devaney. Told that he was next in line after Paterno turned down the job. Devaney replied with irritation. "Well I could consider it a great honor to be chosen behind a guy who had the best quarterback in the country and wouldn't throw the football...
Although bowl assignments will be released officially tomorrow at 6 p.m., they have already leaked out. Bear Bryant's second-ranked Alabama will contest the seventh-place Longhorns of Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Oklahoma, four in the rankings, meets Joe Paterno's sixth-ranked Penn State in the Sugar Bowl...