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Autin family will watch, and wonder what might have been.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MIAMI _ They have the veneer of importance and the confetti feel of celebration, all cheering and brass bands, but most of these bowl games are dressed-up consolation prizes, aren't they?
One each year, this time the Rose, is for the college football championship, and the rest _ at least for the teams that are major players and dared dream of a title _ are one last chance to feel good about a season not quite good enough.
Wednesday night's Orange Bowl Classic is another nationally televised joust between two more runners-up in a beauty pageant. It is no knock on the host that Florida's Gators and Maryland's Terrapins would rather be in Pasadena right now. Yet one of them (oddsmakers say Gators) will raise helmets and pogo in celebration across Joe Robbie's old stadium near midnight.
For them, the consolation prize might not feel like enough, but it will feel real right then, an Orange bittersweet, but all they've got.
The game will be on the television in a house on Bernice Avenue up in Lafayette, La., tonight.
The consolation comes harder there.
The consolation doesn't come at all.
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