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Safety Xavier Watts, one of the captains and leaders on Notre Dame’s defense, did the same for the Fighting Irish. If Notre Dame advances past Penn State, chances the Irish could face Ohio State — where Freeman was once a star linebacker — with a national championship on the line on Jan. 20. Midway through the season I just wanted to fast forward through this bit. I wasn’t mad; I thought most of the deficiencies on this year’s team were a product of Jim Harbaugh being Jim Harbaugh, and I’d trade a year in the relative wilderness for the last three years all day every day.

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Also Michigan retained all their trophies, beat Ohio State and Alabama, and secured a generational quarterback recruit with a late flip from LSU. As mentioned previously, Michigan struggled to score in the paint in this first half, going a dismal 3/11 from two. Attempts to penetrate were stifled, strong USC defense from big Josh Cohen, plus two blocks from Kev Patton Jr. helped to keep Michigan’s twin towers quiet. Vlad Goldin and Wolf both had a point-blank miss which didn’t help either and the team overall felt disjointed. However, they were able to outshoot their problems to some extent, Wolf and Donaldson combining for two more to snatch a lead with just under 7 minutes to play. Rubin Jones’ one productive moment on offense was a flying putback jam off a Sam Walters miss from three, which does merit some mention.

• The Broncos have surrendered 150 points and 1,846 yards in four games.
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• I never thought that I would end up in agriculture, but now I know it’s exactly where I am meant to be.” This year, Caden graduated with his bachelor’s degree in Crop & Soil Science with a concentration in Agronomy.
• This edition of The Book will be easier to put back on the shelf, certainly, but even in a relatively dire season—it used to be that we called a 7-5 year “infinite pain”—there were rewards outside of “trophy go brrr.”
• “I’ve learned a lot about myself through playing football, including time management and attention to detail,” he said.

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Josaiah Stewart causing USC to abandon the forward pass, if not the sideways one. Derrick Moore crushing Alabama’s offensive tackles back into Milroe’s lap. The NFL stick-in-the-mud defensive coordinator who couldn’t learn new tricks did so, in spades. Earlier this year I Football blog said that there was a time for muttering about the Program and the Future and a time to gather up the good things that fell out of a season in which Michigan was not going to win anything shiny. This edition of The Book will be easier to put back on the shelf, certainly, but even in a relatively dire season—it used to be that we called a 7-5 year “infinite pain”—there were rewards outside of “trophy go brrr.”

The Nittany Lions defense has six interceptions through two Playoff games. It returned two for touchdowns against SMU and held Boise State’s Heisman Trophy runner-up running back Ashton Jeanty to 3.5 yards per rush, his worst outing of the season. Ike Iwunnah and Trey Pierce have shown some flashes, while Enow Etta is probably better at EDGE and the true freshmen (Deyvid Palepale/Ted Hammond) are probably a few years away. It was a fairly thin projected depth chart and thus Michigan badly needed more bodies who have played real college football at a decent level to pitch in. 2022 was a similar story for Williams, playing in most games but in a small role (139 snaps) to again middling grades.

Allar has completed 26 of 47 passes (55 percent) for a combined 298 yards and three touchdowns (all against Boise State) through two CFP games. Running backs Nick Singleton and Kaytron Allen are averaging close to 7.0 yards per carry each, and Mackey Award-winning tight end Tyler Warren has 10 catches through two CFP games, coming off a two-touchdown performance against Boise State. Star edge rusher Abdul Carter is one of the best defensive players in the country, but an injury against Boise State knocked him out of the game, and his availability for the Orange Bowl is uncertain.

The nickel cornerback who can play with physicality along the line of scrimmage and enough athleticism in pass defense down the field is one of the most difficult players for general managers to find. Teams have feasted on the catch-and-run room — the Broncos are last in the league in net yards per pass attempt allowed at 8.9 and one of only two teams over eight yards per attempt in that category. In addition to his attention to detail and stress management skills, Caden brings many talents to the table as an upcoming industry leader. “I believe that coming into the industry later in life gives me a unique perspective and edge because I have no biases,” he said. “I didn’t grow up in this industry, but I’ve learned a lot about it through my education and internships. I believe this will give me a fresh set of eyes in agriculture.” Caden also has strong communication and public speaking skills, a desire to learn and grow, a positive attitude, and a passion for thinking, building ideas and innovating.

The defense has been among the best in the country, despite losing some key secondary pieces earlier in the year and losing sack leader Rylie Mills for the season against Indiana. These are two historic programs looking to recapture the glory of the old days. They were expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries of the move to a 12-team Playoff, and they have capitalized. No Black head coach has won an FBS national championship, and one of these coaches will have a chance to be the first. And one of these teams will have a chance to win their first national title in at least three decades. Penn State quarterback Drew Allar hasn’t been lights-out, but he has made enough big plays.

Growing up in Charlotte, Caden had little involvement with the agriculture industry. “My grandmother had a garden, but that’s really the extent of what I knew about agriculture,” he said. Although he realized that farming was important, because it’s where our food comes from, it wasn’t until his freshman year at N.C. State University that he fully started to understand its significance.

Notre Dame is fourth all-time on the NCAA wins leaderboard, and Penn State is eighth. The programs are all-time against each other, last playing a home-and-home in 2006 and ’07, both won by the home team. Penn State won in South Bend in 1982 on its way to a national championship, while Notre Dame won in ’88 on the way to its most recent national title. Opponents, especially Miami and Chicago, which rushed for 350 and 171 yards respectively, repeatedly pounded away at the Broncos’ nickel package in the run game. Bama is looking for a bit of revenge against the team that knocked them out of the playoff last season in overtime.