The college football season is already underway! 3News’ sports reporter Nick Camino talks one-on-one with college football expert Phil Steele.
(AP) Last year at this time, C.J. Stroud was an unknown, untested redshirt freshman who still hadn’t thrown a pass in a college football game.
Stroud was named the starting quarterback late in the 2021 preseason, having wrested the job from another heralded freshman. The gig brought with it outsized expectations: win every game and be even better than the last guy, Justin Fields, who was now in the NFL.
This year, as he prepares to lead the No. 2 Buckeyes against No. 5 Notre Dame in the season opener on Saturday, Coleridge Bernard Stroud IV is a boss.
A Heisman Trophy finalist last season, Stroud is already getting rich from NIL money, and he’s projected to be a first-round NFL draft pick in 2023.
Quite a whirlwind for the 20-year-old from Rancho Cucamonga, California.
“If I blink my eyes, (it’s) like I was just in high school, like getting ready,” he said recently.
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