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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Take two storied college football programs whose campuses know nothing this time of year but snow and cold and dark and cold and wind and cold and send them into the shadows of South Beach in early January, and what do you have?
In 2025, you have a College Football Playoff semifinal between former Independent colleagues (remember those days before realignment?) who haven’t played since 2007. It’s Notre Dame. It’s Penn State. It’s a CFP semifinal in South Florida. Why? Why not?
Here are four players who might help swing Thursday’s game and send their teams on to Atlanta to play on January 20 for the College Football Playoff national championship:
Notre Dame wouldn’t mind getting a big game from tailback Jadarian Price in Thursday’s Capital One Orange Bowl against Penn State.
No. 7 seed NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH (13-1)
RB Jadarian Price (24)
The guy everyone calls JD is just due.
Due to have a bust-out game, like the one in late November at Southern California when he racked up career highs for carries (12) and yards (111) and showed that he could be counted on as an every-down back.
Price hasn’t had to be that, not with a guy named Jeremiyah Love in the same RB stable, but here’s the rub – we likely won’t know Love’s true status until game time Thursday. Love hobbled off against Georgia with a right knee issue that flared during Price’s career day in LA. Love insisted later in New Orleans that he was fine, but he was spotted at practice on Sunday with a bulky brace on his right leg. That’s never a good sign.
It doesn’t have to be all bad if the 5-foot-10, 206-pounder from Denison, Texas can do what so many Irish teammates have done – step in for an injured teammate and show everyone around with his play that he’s got this. All of this.
Give him the ball those dozen or so…
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Author : South Bend Tribune
Publish date : 2025-01-07 09:07:00
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