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Byline: Ron Bellamy The Register-Guard
EL PASO, Texas - In a wonderful game that so wonderfully captured the essence of its football season, resilient Oregon State rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit, successfully gambled on a two-point conversion in the final seconds and won the Sun Bowl here Friday.
This is reported as news, because you might have turned the television off early, just as you might have given up on the Oregon State season early.
"The neat thing about this game is that probably a lot of people turned the channel," coach Mike Riley said. "And they forget they were watching the Beavers if they turned the channel, because this is pretty typical for us."
Final score: Oregon State 39, Missouri 38, before 48,732 in Sun Bowl Stadium, and whatever was left of a national television audience on CBS.
And for the way in which a single game so defined a particular team and its season, so utterly symbolized its style and character and its identity, this game reminded me of...
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