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Penn State sees bowl hopes disappear.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| December 01, 2001 | Braunsdorf, Doug | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. _ Remember the Alamo? You know, that bowl game in San Antonio the Penn State football team seemed headed to just days ago.

Well, if you're a Nittany Lions fan, you can forget about the Alamo Bowl, the Sun Bowl, the yourcompanynamehere.com Bowl, the bowling alley, the salad bowl, the Manute Bol, the ... I think you get the point.

Bowl talk that seemed so out of place just two months ago as this Penn State team tripped over itself to an 0-4 start was the in thing in recent weeks, particularly last week. In fact, Penn State radio analyst Jack Ham said on Saturday's pregame show that he already had booked reservations for a Mexican restaurant in Texas for late December. The Nittany Lions seemed a lock ...

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