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OSU football: Two national contenders ready to collide

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: November 8, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

LUBBOCK, Texas — The game of the week commences tonight at Jones Stadium, where Saturday nights get wild and woolly.

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And the ranch hands filling the air with fireworks tonight in college football’s Dodge City are newcomers to such a stage. Truth is, this is a fun ball game because of a lack of pedigree.

While bluebloods Penn State and Alabama and Oklahoma dominate the afternoon television slots, ABC cameras tonight focus on two programs in national contention but without so much as an outright conference championship.

Tech and OSU tied for league titles in 1976 and haven’t finished in first place since.

Neither has so much as won the Big 12 South’s division, a mantel claimed six times by OU, four times by Texas and twice by Texas A&M.

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