Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times

Photo: Gina Ferazzi, LA Times

What if college football’s end game this season didn’t involve Baton Rouge or Tallahassee and had nothing to do with the kids: Norman, Madison, Eugene, Austin or Ann Arbor? What if the biggest national news was, not loco, but local? Say you pulled out a map, took a math compass, stuck the needle at downtown and extended the pointer to Westwood, then penciled a giant, sweeping arc, and that was your circumference? continue