Finally, Florida came from behind to beat Penn State 37-24 in the Outback Bowl.
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He said that Australia looked "coolest", calling the colours and textures of the Outback "severely artistic".
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On our last day of driving we were given a reminder of just how wild the Outback Coast still is.
Like so many other spots on the Outback Coast, this one seemed as if no one before us had ever visited.
Between 2001 and 2008 it was estimated there were up to a million feral camels in the outback, but thousands were culled under the project.
He has made them profit-sharing partners with a stake in the business--a step unheard of among Singapore dealers of handicrafts from the outback.
Good descriptions of the Nullarbor (which means "treeless") Plain and of the fabulously awful industrial city of Port Hedland, north of the Outback Coast.
Second date: I drove the Outback through several cumbersome New York rush hours in pouring rain, which makes New York drivers extra fidgety.
Yet despite the hostility to development, the Outback Coast is changing.
To get to the Bloomfield Lodge in Queensland, Australia, you must hop on a chartered plane, drive through the Outback, then cruise down a river.
But head inland into Queensland and into the outback and the contrast cannot get sharper: Giant excavators, three stories high and weighing hundreds of tonnes, work at mines of Brobdingnagian proportions.
Without immediacy and consequence, what drives the drama for casual sports fans to watch South Carolina v Michigan in the Outback Bowl, or Northwestern v Mississippi State in the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl?
When the final whistle sounded in the Outback (Steakhouse) Bowl on New Years Day, however, the ESPN scoreboard showed plenty of field goals and a few touchdowns--and also its highest ratings week ever.
But though their heart lay in the outback, the rest of their body was, at least from the mid-19th century, firmly in the city or, more exactly, in the suburbs, which is where most live today.
The means of locomotion through the outback vary greatly: The Paris-based organizers of the Raid Gauloises, the sport's most prestigious event, require racers to travel on everything from camels to paragliders in places like Madagascar and Oman.
The company has been gradually improving Maps, but as recently as this month Australian police complained that an Apple Maps glitch could endanger motorists by mislocating a city of 30, 000 people in the middle of the outback.
It begins with his near-fatal car crash in 1999 on a fishing trip in the outback of Australia, an event that crippled his walking for the rest of his life, and then flashes back to his upbringing in a prominent Sydney family, which educated him at Jesuit schools and sharpened his antiauthoritarian edge.
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I'm a Celebrity... has gripped the viewing public and media since the minor celebrities were dropped off in the middle of the Australian Outback in the name of charity.
The toll surpasses what was believed by ballooning experts to be the deadliest accident in the sport's 200-year history: In 1989, 13 people were killed when their hot air balloon collided with another over the Australian outback near the town of Alice Springs.
The training director at Outback Steakhouse must be pretty cool because the wait staff at Outback are almost always really cool.
Lexus unveiled its LF-LC Concept last month in Sydney, since its blue opal color is inspired by the blue opal found in the Australian Outback, but this week in Los Angeles is the first time Americans will have a chance to see the 500-horsepower hybrid up close.
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The Queen will even go to Bourke, a dusty town which is a byword in Australia for the remote outback - "Back o' Bourke" means the back of beyond or middle of nowhere in Aussie-speak.
Sitting out under the stars eating stewed kangaroo, she told us how, for thousands of years, her people had survived the parched outback.
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In 1977, National Geographic assigned Smolan to photograph a story about an Australian woman, Robyn Davidson who, accompanied by four camels and a dog, crossed 1700 miles of the desolate outback.
What follows is an untraditional love story, in which Lucinda, determined to transport a church made of glass from Britain to the Australian outback, bets Oscar her inheritance that he can't accomplish such a daunting feat.
Or hike, bike or fly-fish the rugged rustic outback by far the fairest in the land.
Martin, who also reached the final of the Australian Open in 1994 and reached a highest ranking of fourth, retired from the elite level in 1999 and now plays on the seniors' Outback Champions Series.
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Dinners in the smart onboard restaurant have an unmistakably outback flavour, with kangaroo fillet on the menu, while Platinum Service passengers can order 24-hour room service and breakfast in bed.
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