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Ball State vs. Tulsa should be fun, eh?

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"Is the thing behind us safe?"

Remember the end of The Natural? Different sports, sure, but how fun is this GMAC Bowl going to be? Ball State and Tulsa love to hang mid-centuries on fools, so let's just hope they don't hold back. Three awesome bowl games in a row—Fiesta to GMAC to (hopefully) BCS Title—would get 2009 off to a rip-roarin' sporting start.

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