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Barkley’s backup faces top challenge

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: November 24, 2012 at 4:18 a.m.

Not many young quarterbacks are forced to make their first career starts under the circumstances surrounding Max Wittek at the Coliseum tonight.

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