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Elwood P Dowd

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2. Neither of those teams had ever won a major college bowl game before.

Reply to GaYellowDawg (Original post)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 02:21 PM

Dec 2011

Louisiana Lafayette had a win in a lower division bowl decades ago, but that was it. Also, there were surprisingly good crowds for both of those games. I was expecting to see stadiums 75% empty, and the fans saw two very entertaining games.

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