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...with no one around. I made one last Wednesday in a column I wrote about college football. I said the reason the current bowl system is no good is that it hinders the best teams from playing each other. For instance, I said, it might make a Notre Dame-USC match impossible, since USC, if it wins the Pac-10 conference, is required to play the winner of the Big-10 conference in the Rose Bowl...
...forgot, of course, that Notre Dame and USC, the top two teams in the country, are scheduled to play each other during the regular season this year...
However, such a mistake as I made Wednesday seems to bely excuses. Wouldn't someone with even the remotest interest in college football know about the Notre Dame-USC battle...
Still, McAnaney has a point when she says any `real' fan of college football would be aware of, even passionately look forward to, the Notre Dame-USC showdown...
...USC, per tradition, will face the bimbo from the Big Ten, some hulking squad without a quarterback that will get run over on Rodney Peete street, in the Rose Bowl. And Notre Dame will go elsewhere to defend its top ranking...