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Breaking the huddle at the season's halfway point

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Meet Me In Miami If the 2007 season taught us nothing else, it revealed the folly of attempting before the last weekend to predict which teams would play in the BCS National Championship Game. Even if this season isn't approaching the upset-a-week pace of 2007, the lesson is obvious. A midseason assessment of the national championship race reminds me of the episode my wife refers to as Ivan's America's Cup. She once tried to teach me how to sail. Having assessed the variables -- wind, rudder, ...

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