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Twelve and oh-so-fortunate.

Champions of the Big East, winners of a BCS bowl berth, and survivors of a 45-44 nail-biter at Heinz Field that was one heck of a college football shootout.

It was a game full of heroes and their heroics, but when all was said and done it was backup quarterback Andrew Janocko’s bobbled hold of an extra point that put Cincinnati in position to weather the perfect storm in Pittsburgh.

The perfect storm was the snow and cold conditions that grounded the Bearcats' high-power passing game, The perfect storm was the super-human effort of freshman sensation Dion Lewis, the future of the Heisman Trophy, and the perfect storm was a less than perfect first half by Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pik...

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