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Now comes the part when the outrageous zaniness of college football games — you know, sports — tries to outpace the droning chatter about mergers and acquisitions and realignment and business, business, business — you know, tedium. How did Saturday do?
In daytime, it had its simultaneous wonders in Iowa City and gorgeous Boone on a planet where few sports can boast simultaneous wonders in Iowa City and gorgeous Boone. It had Iowa nudging past a gutty band of Jackrabbits visiting from South Dakota State in that crazy-rare 7-3 finish derived from a 3-3 tie. It had North Carolina nudging past a storied bunch of Mountaineers at Appalachian State in that crazy-rare 40-22 score, with the 40-22 meaning only the fourth quarter.
By evening, it had an interregional tussle of Utes and Gators in a Swamp that went back and forth and 29-26 at the end — to Florida — and it had an overtime leap into the end zone…
