But over the past month, as he got healthy, he turned into "Mr. January." As a result, Notre Dame is headed to its first national championship game since 2013, with an opportunity to win its first national title since 1988.

In one of the biggest games of the college football season, on one of the biggest stages, in front of a huge audience, some of the best Missouri high school football players of late made some of the biggest plays in the game’s biggest moments.

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