... up and wiped the sand from my eyes, stretched a little bit and sprinted to the door for the morning paper.

I quickly thumbed to the second sports page and checked the bowl pairings.

There it was.

I wasn't dreaming after all.

Thirty years of being bowl-less will play mind games with a person's psyche.

Temple's football team is in a bowl game and the opponent, geez, is UCLA.

Damn.

It's not in Idaho or Kansas, either.

It's in D.C.

It's within driving distance.

The best news yet is that with less than a week to go until the kickoff of the EagleBank Bowl in Washington, D.C., Temple's entire ticket allotment of 5,000 has been sold. Just a few $100 seats remain and ...

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