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Strike up the band, the Dash is back

Updated: August 29, 2006, 2:11 PM ET
By Pat Forde | ESPN.com

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (Rhett Bomar (1) souvenir time slip sold separately):

First things first, TGIF. Thank God It's Football. The Dash was one more pickoff throw to first base away from combustion during the dead months between kickoffs -- but purgatory is over now.

Now it's blocking, it's tackling, it's everybody on their feet for the opening kickoff. It's college boys in ties and college girls in dresses in the South, it's tailgate ...

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