Matchups, Head-to-Head Record, History, Titles

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The 2024 college football season comes down to this: It’s the Washington Huskies vs. Michigan Wolverines in the CFP National Championship Game.

The two undefeated teams are coming into Monday’s title game on the heels of thrilling victories in the CFP semifinals. Michigan took down Nick Saban and Alabama before Washington defeated Steve Sarkisian’s Texas, each on a defensive stop in the game’s final play, to punch their ticket to Houston’s NRG Stadium.

It doesn’t happen every year, but this year, it’s easy to argue that the title game features the two very best teams in the nation.

 

Washington is led by its sensational quarterback, Michael Penix Jr., in his second year since transferring over from Indiana. As good as he was in the regular season and the Pac-12 Championship Game – and he was spectacular, throwing for 4,218 yards with 36 total touchdowns en route to a Heisman Trophy runner-up finish – he was even better against the Longhorns. Penix completed 29 of 38 passes for 430 yards with a pair of touchdowns.

 

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh lauded Penix’s skillset on Wednesday.

“Big-time arm talent, tremendous presence in the pocket, sees the field really well,” Harbaugh said. “He is so polished. Watching him and his accuracy, his decision making, timing, he has really just continued to have this tremendous presence of going through progression, feels pressure, will drop it off to a check-down — yeah, it’s at an elite level.”

 

Washington, led by AP Coach of the Year Kalen DeBoer, has been doing this all amid the backdrop of its upcoming move to the Big Ten after 65 years in what’s now the Pac-12. It makes for a CFP National Championship Game with a strong Big Ten throughline: There’s never been a Big Ten vs. Big Ten college football championship game, and while that still holds…

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Author : NBC Sports

Publish date : 2024-01-06 00:07:58

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