The Magpies are guaranteed at least a top-two finish after Nottingham Forest drew 0-0 with Cardiff.
Northern Ireland have also played a game more than their rivals and a top-two place is now unlikely.
What then, are the costs to either Oregon or Kansas State, of falling out of the top-two BCS spots?
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Bath, on the other hand, are chasing a top-two slot to give them a home tie in the Premiership play-offs.
Glasgow travel to Parc y Scarlets bidding for a top-two finish that would give them a home draw in the inaugural play-offs.
Welsh number one and Wales Open runner-up Davies, the new world number 45 after successive top-two finishes, had already qualified for his second Open Championship.
Westwood, who carded a two-under-par 70 at Kingsbarns to lie four off the lead, would usurp Tiger Woods as world number one with a top-two finish.
Westwood, on the back of helping Europe to Ryder Cup glory on Monday, needs a top-two finish to usurp American Tiger Woods at the top of the rankings.
More importantly, of course, the result sealed a top-two seeding, with only a Toulouse victory away to Wasps on Sunday capable of displacing Saints as number one seeds.
Improved promises of performance have allowed the top-two selling sports beverages in America, Gatorade and Powerade, to maintain a stronghold on the sports beverage and performance market in the United States.
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While this number is sizable, it should be noted that even if Kansas State and Oregon do not maintain their top-two rankings, they both could still bring in that much money through participation in a bowl game.
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Westwood, 37, who has played only once in three months because of a calf injury, took the top spot as German Martin Kaymer failed to record the top-two finish he required at the Andalucia Masters last weekend.
The four officially non-independent members of the board include the top two - Buffet and Munger - and two of the only three executive officers of the corporation.
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In Northern Ireland there should be two top-up areas each returning two members.
Merck is now facing safety concerns regarding the top doses of its two top-selling drugs: the arthritis pill Vioxx, and now Zocor.
And there is talk of open primaries in which people vote irrespective of their party affiliation, and then elect a candidate in a run-off between the top two vote-getters, whether from the same party or not.
Romney scored well with voters who ranked the economy and illegal immigration -- the top two issues on the minds of Nevada GOP voters -- as the issues that concern them most, according to early entrance polls.
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CBS' top-ranked sitcom Two and a Half Men regularly attracts nearly double that.
Earlier, Beethoven from the Aidan O'Brien yard caused a surprise with success in the Dewhurst Stakes the race that traditionally crowns the top two-year-old of the season.
But, although it is a very tall order, Lancashire's last two games are against the top two - against Somerset at Taunton next week (7-10 September), followed by a home date with Notts at Old Trafford (13-16 September).
The jaw-dropping allegations call the two top hip-hop producers of their time murderers.
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For that matter, what about the last, scandal-plagued 11-month stretch of Woods's reign at the top, when he played in just 12 tournaments and had only two top-10 finishes?
Wrexham are eight points and four places outside the Blue Square Premier play-off top five with two games in hand on fifth-placed Stevenage Borough.
Plaid Cymru has also announced that it plans to run US-style leadership elections for its two top posts - leader of its assembly group, and president.
The 16-team tournament continues on Monday, as Group C kicks off with outsiders India playing Asia's top-ranked team Australia and then two-time champions South Korea taking on Bahrain.
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The tournament format sees the eight teams split into two groups of four for a round-robin stage, before the top two teams from each group progress to knock-out semi-finals and then the final on June 28.
If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there will be a run-off between the top two contenders, most likely in mid-October.
Bristol-Myers was already selling two of top HIV-fighters: Zerit and Videx.
To make this possible, Walgreens will equip the new store with more than 800 roof-top solar panels, two wind turbines, geothermal wells , LED lighting and energy-efficient building materials.
The top 1% of the population owns more than one-third of the wealth in the U.S. The top 10% has two-thirds.
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