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Ducks don't have to worry about being No. 2 anymore

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Thursday, November 15, 2007

TUCSON, Ariz. -- If I'm Kansas coach Mark Mangino, I don't wait for the BCS to release its rankings on Sunday night. I learn from history. I wake up Friday morning, and I pull a Calvin Coolidge. I release a statement saying, "I do not choose to run for No. 2 in 2007." I pull a Lyndon Johnson: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of the polls, Jeff Sagarin and those other computer guys, for a term as the No. 2 team in the nation." It could be Coolidge. It could be LBJ. It ...

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