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Neutral field showdowns highlight opening week

By Chris Fowler
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Fasten your seat belts low and tight. Here we go on another wild college football ride. Last year's insanity -- bookended by Appalachian State's miracle at Michigan and the crazy BCS scramble down the stretch, and marked by jaw-droppers like Stanford over USC -- may not be topped. But strange plot twists and turns will be the norm, not the exception. No one would be stunned to see Michigan lose on the opening Saturday of the 2008 season. And I won't be stunned to see a walk-on quarterback the W ...

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