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UB’s comeback is simply golden
Bowl invitation helps right past wrong

With their 40-34 double overtime win on Friday night at Bowling Green, the University at Buffalo Bulls clinched their first outright Mid America Conference East Division championship. The Bulls will play the West Division winner in the MAC Championship game Sat Dec 6 at Ford Field in Detroit, MI. The Bulls will meet either 16th ranked Ball State, Central Michigan or Western Michigan. UB’s regular season concludes with a home game on Fri Nov 28 2pm vs. Kent St.

Buffalo rallied from a 20 point deficit with just 13 minutes left in the game, tying the game at 27-27 with 37 seconds left, sending Buffalo to overtime for the fifth time this season. James Starks 25 yard TD run on the first play of the second overtime clinched the victory. Of their 11 games this season, five games have been decided in OT and two others on the final play of the game.

Following the MAC championship game, the Bulls season will continue as participants in either the International Bowl in Toronto, Motor City Bowl in Detroit or the GMAC Bowl in Mobile, AL. The last Bulls team to quality for a post season bowl game was the ‘58 squad who qualified for the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, FL. But the team declined the bid when the Orlando hosts said UB’s two black players wouldn’t be allowed on the same field with white players. The 1958 team was honored earlier this season prior to a UB home game and also was featured on ESPN’s “Outside The Line” on Sun Nov 23.

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