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Lynch and Northern Illinois can’t keep pace with Florida State

(MCT) — MIAMI — It wasn’t a lost cause, but a loss on the field for Northern Illinois, which crashed the Orange Bowl party as unwanted guests from the Mid-American Conference and fell Tuesday night to favored Florida State, 31-10.

Jordan Lynch, the proclaimed “tough kid from the South Side of Chicago,” hoped to will himself and his NIU teammates to an upset victory before the crowd of 72,073 at Sun Life Stadium.

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