Blair Kerkhoff
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The Orange Bowl had the Big Eight champion against somebody.
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The Sugar Bowl had the SEC champion against somebody.
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The Southwest Conference champion went to the Cotton Bowl.
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And Big Ten and Pac-10 played in the Rose Bowl.
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There was no other commitment to anything.
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And so if you came out of the ACC or the Big Eastern, there were many, many independents back then.
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You could land, you would fill out wherever it was.
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But if 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 came from the Southwest Conference, Big Ten, Pac-12, not the Pac-10, but Big Ten, you could not get a matchup.
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And so when the year in 82, when Miami won its first championship, they were five in one poll, four in another and playing number one Penn State.