National Championship Preview! Matchups, predictions, X-Factors & anonymous coaches weigh in + Will Howard to OSU and Quinshon Judkins hits the portal

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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It's that time. The national championship is on Monday, and Ari and David are now ready to share their game picks with you all. The guys look at key matchups, the reasons why both Michigan and Washington will win and lose, and X-Factors. David and Bruce Feldman asked coaches who played both championship contenders, what they think about the game on the promise of anonymity. Plus, Will Howard transfers to Ohio State, and Ole Miss RB Quinshon Judkins hits the portal. -Will Howard to OSU (:30) -Quinshon Judkins enters the portal (4:30) -Reasons why Washington and Michigan will win/lose (10:00) -Anonymous coaches weigh in (52:00) -Game picks (1:01:30) Subscribe to the Until Saturday newletter: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to Until Saturday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhfrD1COvG40Mk7vvgaHIQ Follow Ari on Twitter: @AriWasserman Follow David on Twitter: @davidubben Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	I wanted to talk about some breaking news that happened on Thursday night Kansas State
1:08.4	starting quarterback and high-profile quarterback transfer will Howard announced that he was committing to
1:13.6	Ohio State Howard went 12 and 5 at Kansas State in two years as a starter you
1:18.3	know and off and on he led the Wildcats to a Big 12 championship win over
1:22.8	TCU in 2022.
1:24.8	A lot of smoke was that he was going to be considering USC or potentially the NFL
1:28.7	draft, but after Ohio State's cotton-bold
1:31.6	tobacco, they were able to convince Will Howard to come to Columbus
1:35.2	to try to save Ohio State's current situation to try to get the Buckeyes back on track after
1:40.0	losing three straight games to Michigan and not winning the big 10 championships since the 20 season, which is pretty crazy to think about.
1:47.0	We went into the Cotton Bowl, Ohio State's Cotton Bowl lost to Missouri, thinking that Devon Brown had a chance to reassert himself as
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