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Meineke Car Care Bowl gives us a 3rd and 49 situation

by Bill Hanstock
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Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

It’s not quite Georgia facing a 3rd and 57, but the Meineke Car Care Bowl saw fit to bless us with a sequence of events were facing 3rd and 49. Thank you, based football gods. This is the best belated Christmas gift we could have hoped for.

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They, uh ... they didn’t convert.

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