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Wearing matching smiles and dark blue suits, Washington coach Kalen DeBoer and Texas’ Steve Sarkisian shook hands and posed for a photo with the Sugar Bowl trophy their teams will play for tonight. They are newcomers to this stage, with career paths that could not be more different: DeBoer methodically climbing from the lowest levels of college football; Sarkisian, the prodigy whose meteoric rise was waylaid by personal demons.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Wearing matching smiles and dark blue suits, Washington coach Kalen DeBoer and Texas Steve Sarkisian shook hands and posed for a photo with the Sugar Bowl trophy their teams will play for Monday night.
Texas is looking to claim its fifth national title, and its last as a member of the Big 12 before moving to the SEC. The Huskies this season took home the Joe Moore award, which recognizes the top offensive line in all of college football.