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The Rose Bowl, 110 laps in, almost certainly has not experienced a game where so much of the country hoped beyond reason and logic that both teams would lose. The matchup between No. 1 Michigan and No. 4 Alabama, a College Football Playoff semifinal, became a grainy Western where both sides wore black hats. Outside of their home states, the teams were about as popular as robo calls and tax season. Then they went and made the Grandaddy of Them All a delicious, delightful dandy all the same. Bile gave way to bedlam. Disdain gave way to drama. In just the second overtime in Rose Bowl history, Mic…

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