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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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