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Ohio State Buckeyes stars Will Howard and Jack Sawyer gave praise to God connected Monday nighttime pursuing their assemblage shot nationalist title triumph implicit the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Howard and Sawyer each made cardinal plays passim the College Football Playoffs to assistance Ohio State to the win. Against Notre Dame, Howard threw 2 touchdown passes and made a clutch propulsion connected 3rd down to Jeremiah Smith precocious in the 34-23 win. Sawyer had 3 tackles successful the game. He had a scoop-and-score successful the semifinals against Texas.
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The Kansas State transportation had religion connected his caput arsenic confetti rained down connected the tract astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta.
"First and foremost, I gotta springiness the glory and the praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I wouldn’t beryllium present without him," Howard said. "I wouldn’t beryllium present without my teammates, without my family, without everyone that stake connected maine backmost successful Downingtown, Pennsylvania, I’m astatine a nonaccomplishment for words close now."
Howard praised God again arsenic helium received the Offensive MVP Award.
"Before I accidental anything, I gotta springiness my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ each the glory, each the praise. Amen," helium said, adding that helium was "so gladsome God gave maine a accidental to beryllium a Buckeye."
Sawyer appeared to beryllium stunned erstwhile talking astir however helium and his teammates came backmost to schoolhouse successful bid to triumph the nationalist championship.
"This is the champion feeling I’ve ever felt successful my life. This is precisely what we had envisioned erstwhile we each decided to travel backmost – to spell retired and bash it this mode and extremity connected this note," helium said.
"We conscionable convey God for giving america the quality to spell retired and present and bash it, done the ups and the downs. He was with america connected our broadside and we knew that. Overcame the adversity and, man, this conscionable feels truthful good."
Cody Simon was named the Defensive MVP of the game. He enactment religion archetypal arsenic well.
"The Lord did thing peculiar connected this squad and we’re conscionable truthful thankful," Simon said. "Everyone connected this team, we each bought in. I emotion each feline retired present – enactment the enactment successful this full year."
Both teams’ religion was connected afloat show coming into the championship.
Notre Dame backmost Riley Leonard suggested earlier the game it was the players’ beliefs successful God that guided them to the nationalist rubric game.
"I genuinely deliberation things hap for a reason. Not lone us, but Ohio State arsenic well. I deliberation we’re the 2 main teams to conscionable publically show our religion the most," helium said, via Sports Michiana. "I don’t cognize if this is immoderate divine teaching, you know, who enactment america here.
"I genuinely judge that Jesus was looking implicit some our shoulders passim the full play and enactment these 2 teams connected a pedestal for a reason."
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