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No. 1 vs. No. 2 is twice as nice

By Dave Revsine
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

This is a column about numbers, and we've got the two sweetest that any college football fan could hope for this weekend: one and two. Great thing is, that was actually my opening sentence from Week 2 of the college football season. Lazy? No doubt. But it's not that often you get to recycle a sentence like that one -- in fact, you have to go back to … 1945: The last time there were two No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchups in the same regular season was 1945, when No. 1 Army beat No. 2 Notre Dame 48- ...

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