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1 Winner of the 2017 and ’19 College Football Playoff 8 Like coll. football coaches who win the Broyles Award 12 Cut off 15 University of Maryland athlete, for short 19 Bears placekicker Eddy who played for the Florida Gators

20 Notre __ Fighting Irish (Brady Quinn’s college squad) 21 Legendary coach Parseghian of 20-Across 22 Notion, in France 23 California venue of the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship 25 Saturated

26 “Ask __ questions

...”

27 Lubing

28 Head coach of the 38-Across since 2016

30 Spring month 35 Is unable to

36 __ Miss Rebels (Archie Manning’s college squad)

37 Hugs, in letters 38 They beat 1-Across to win the 2020 College Football Playoff

40 They lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the 2015 College Football Playoff 45 __ Bowl (one of the

102-Across) 46 Board a ship 47 Pigpens 48 Executing a Statue of Liberty play in football, e.g. 52 Brain wave test, for

short

54 Yards per attempt,

e.g. 55 College football attraction in Atlanta

60 Did as told 63 Open __ (create an

opportunity) 64 LAX guess

65 __ dye (Congo red,

e.g.)

66 Red __ (Texas Tech

football player) 71 Louisiana venue of the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship 76 __ collateral ligament (knee structure often injured in football) 77 Conference __ (Louisiana Tech Bulldogs’ org.) 78 Bi- plus one 79 Drink mixer

80 “My goodness!” 83 55-Across member who’s on the College Football Playoff selection committee 85 German coal region 89 Brit. military award 90 Kidnapper’s

demand 91 First-string group

of players 93 Slaved away 96 __ wing (offensive football formation)

102 Set of bowl games that rotate in hosting the College Football Playoff semifinals 104 38-Across quarterback who was the offensive MVP of the 2020 College Football

Playoff National Championship 107 Small, like Abner 108 Quarterback Manning who played for the 36-Across

109 Part of NCAA: Abbr.

110 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim 111 Nickname for half of the conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I 115 Neighbor of Albania

117 State openly 118 Fish eggs 119 Group featured in many a college football halftime show

125 Her voice is heard on iPhones 126 Right-angled annex

127 “The Good Wife” actor Chris 128 1984 Emilio Estevez film 129 Chances 130 Linebacker Nguyen who played for the Texas A&M Aggies 131 Workplace welfare org. 132 Winner of the 2016 and ’18 College Football Playoff

DOWN

1 Sgt.’s inferior 2 Falsehood

3 Ltr. holder

4 “Tell __ was

dreaming” 5 Auntie, to Mom 6 Roughly

7 Catch sight of 8 Expansion cards, e.g. 9 __ Francis University (home of football’s Red Flash) 10 Self-satisfied 11 President pro __ 12 What 55-Across quarterback Steve Young earned at Brigham Young University 13 Cookie giant 14 Customer

15 90 seconds are allotted for them in college football 16 German river 17 Home of college football’s Nevada Wolf Pack

18 Lowly laborer 24 Banned apple spray 28 Zeno of __ (Greek

philosopher) 29 Deities 30 Sitcom alien 31 It follows chi 32 Really regret 33 Part of TGIF 34 Illuminated 36 Sphere

39 Big fishhook 40 “Wow!,” in texts 41 “__ -dokey!” 42 Op. __ (footnote

abbr.) 43 Mauna __

44 Old JFK jet 46 Suffix with

ethyl

49 For __ (not gratis) 50 Kit __ (candy bars) 51 “Hallelujah, __”

(folk song) 53 Richard of “The

Jackal”

55 Soccer star Mia 56 “Zip- __ -Doo

Dah”

57 __ Jeffs (former name of Amherst College’s Mammoths) 58 Graph points 59 Greek mountain

nymph 60 “Blizzard of __” (1980 rock album)

61 __ College Eagles (Doug Flutie’s college squad) 62 “Vissi __” (“Tosca”

aria) 65 Actress Ortiz 67 Revered one 68 “First, __ harm” (medical maxim)

69 Give off 70 Playing card’s

shape: Abbr.

72 Placed on a baseball injury list, informally 73 Buffalo-to-NYC

dir.

74 Large vases 75 Actor Danny of

“Cold Case” 81 Star studier’s sci. 82 Theodore __ Award (annual NCAA honor won by Roger Staubach in 2000) 83 “Way cool!”

84 Big film website, in

brief

85 Went for a

touchdown, e.g. 86 Salt Lake City college football player

87 Use an ax on 88 Ravens linebacker who played for the Miami Hurricanes 90 Quarterback Grossman who played for the Florida Gators 92 Israel’s Golda 94 Atoll unit 95 Caesar’s 52 97 Three-and- __ (punting the football when no first downs have been made) 98 Suffix with script or

strict

99 “I’ll return shortly,” in texts 100 London lav 101 “How gross!” 103 Running back Morris who played for the Florida Atlantic Owls 104 Violinist Heifetz 105 “Then again,” online

106 TV’s “Mistress of the Dark” 109 __ Carolina Tar Heels (Julius Peppers’ college squad)

111 El __ (home of the Sun Bowl) 112 Ancient Roman poet 113 Incarnate __ Cardinals (players in college football’s Southland Conference) 114 Southeast Kansas city

115 Enemy of CONTROL on “Get Smart” 116 Like Ogden Nash’s “lama”

119 L-P linkup 120 High no. for a valedictorian 121 College football coach Devaney in the 55-Across 122 Doctors’ gp. 123 “Rambo” site, for short 124 Genetic stuff