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College football lacks a middle class this season

By Chris Fowler
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 31, 2002

So I'm filling out my AP ballot Sunday morning and I notice something odd about this college football season. Now, I usually don't notice much of anything on Sunday mornings because three consecutive nights with about three hours of sleep on the traveling GameDay gig leave me a little ragged. Plus, I avoid the morning caffeine fix so I can sleep the entire flight home. Sitting in an airline lounge in Atlanta, I'm looking bleary-eyed at the list of teams to be ranked in some order. When I get ...

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