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BCS bowl games could produce some high scores
Updated: December 31, 2007, 12:53 PM ET
By
Bruce Feldman | ESPN The Magazine
We pick up part two of the bowl picks with the games being played in January. Here are the guesses, starting with the games on New Year's Day:
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Bruce Feldman is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He joined ESPN in July 1994 as a writer for ESPNET (now ESPN.com) and in May 1998 came to ESPN The Magazine.
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