My Blue Heaven: What the 2007 Fiesta Bowl meant for college football, an excerpt from "Season of Saturdays"

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Here's a pleasurable thing I do sometimes, when I am despairing about the state of the universe: I go to YouTube, I search for highlights of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, I run the video through to about seven or eight seconds, and I freeze the frame. At that point, I can see what's coming, and I can also witness the forces of nature driving things toward their inevitable conclusion. I can view the constellation of Oklahoma...