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Bleacher Report: The 2011 Rose Bowl and The Case For TCU Over Wisconsin

Across the country on Christmas morning, millions of Americans were waking up to open their gifts. The TCU football team was at practice and they weren’t in Texas. Across the country on Christmas night, most of those same millions of people were having dinner with their families. The TCU football team was having dinner with each other at the team’s hotel. "We can spend Christmas with our families anytime" the players told coach Gary Patterson. It was Patterson’s original plan which prompted that response when he scheduled his team to have the day off for Christmas and fly out to ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: