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[crowd cheering]

COMMENTATOR: The longest, toughest, post-season climb,

[crowd cheering]

[players cheering, shouting]

MAN: Last year, we had major question marks with Ohio State.

They lost their fourth straight time

to their arch-rival, Michigan.

But, heading into the college football playoff,

they beat four of the best teams in the country

to win their first national title in a decade.

REPORTER: Can Ohio State repeat as national champions?

MAN: I will tell you, I'm not going to take them to repeat.

Two new coordinators, new quarterback,

whole lot of new names on defense.

I'm not going to take them to win the title.

They did lose 14 players

who were drafted in the 2025 NFL Draft.

There is a road where they can still win the Big Ten.

Ohio State's always recruiting great in the secondary,

but we're just not going to know until we know.

DEVIN: I don't really do too much.

I like to just stay to myself.

I don't really go out, you know, live the normal college life.

It's rubber band ball.

It started when I first got here.

I was so bored when I first got here in January.

It was cold out, so there wasn't really too much going on.

I was like, all right, I'm going to do rubber band ball.

It was a process, you know,

getting used to college, obviously.

Used to living by myself, having to wake up by myself.

It was a lot of things that was new.

Going to class on campus, the football part of it.

I was never one of those kids that was homesick.

I obviously could have stayed in Texas.

I could have went to a school that was, you know,

no more than two hours or 45 minutes away from my home.

So, you know, I chose to come 17, 18 hours away.

This is what I wanted.

You know, I believe that up here

is where I can play my best ball.

I came up here to better my family,

you know, just provide.

I wouldn't be here without my family.

[progressive music]

My name is Devin Sanchez.

I'm a cornerback at the Ohio State University.

[crowd shouting]

[crowd shouting]

I grew up in Houston, Texas, playing Little League football.

Both my parents played sports.

So, I mean, I was kind of, you know,

just into it from the jump.

We kind of always had, you know, this bond

because he's a middle child, I'm a middle child.

We connect and we're each other's comfort, I think.

DEVIN: She ran track, played volleyball.

Her and my dad kind of get into it

about where I get my speed from.

DEETRA: You know, we laugh about that now,

but we were going to, you know...

create... [chuckling] ...that perfect kid.

[crowd shouting, cheering]

Man, I come from a tough place.

You can play ball or, you know,

get lost in-- in-- in, you know, the streets.

I used my experience to, you know, help guide my boys.

DEVIN: My dad played corner, UTEP.

He's the reason I play corner now.

I learned everything from him. He was my first coach,

first cornerback coach, first trainer.

He was my first everything. You know, he just stays on me.

[chuckles] It's funny. Daniel was a coach,

but Devin coached himself.

Daniel would call plays.

Devin would do what he wanted to do.

You had him at quarterback, if he said,

"Pass it to this person," if Devin saw an opening,

he was going to run. So, when Devin would get in the car,

he learned how... "I'm not arguing with Dad."

If I don't say anything, he won't say anything.

I mean, because they would butt heads.

DEVIN: It's hard coaching, and, you know, I respect it.

I look at it like, man, if I didn't listen to him,

I wouldn't be here.

You know, I wanted to be a receiver.

I think everybody wants to be a receiver.

But he had to talk to me when I was younger,

and this is the real reason why I wanted to be corner.

When you go to high school camps,

you'll have 200 receivers,

and you'll have, like, 15 corners.

There ain't too many guys out here that really want to do it.

And if you really lock in at it, and, you know,

become like what I've become, you'd really be great at it.

CHARLES: I watched Devin Sanchez,

and I watched his high school tape.

I saw Christian Gonzalez, who's now a Pro Bowl corner

for the New England Patriots.

When it comes to Sanchez, the height, the weight,

the speed, the ability, it's all there.

CHARLES: You could see why he was five-star.

DEVIN: I started getting offers my freshman spring.

That's when I got my Alabama offer my freshman year.

DANIEL: To be perfectly honest, the first time

we stepped in Saban's office, I almost cried.

I'm just, you know, this is Football Dad, right?

DEETRA: We knew when he got the offer from Coach Saban

that it was real. And, you know, it kind of took off from there.

DEVIN: The end of my freshman year,

I had around 15 offers.

And then my sophomore year, that's when they kind of,

the rest of them just started coming in.

DANIEL: Devin's kind of like my little science project, right?

You know, I had a list.

If you don't get these certain five, six schools,

you are not who you think you are as a position player.

These are the DBU schools.

Texas, Bama, USC,

LSU, Washington, and Ohio State.

Those were the six schools that I said,

you got to have these if we're going to be

considered to be a top DB in the country.

DEVIN: Towards the end of my sophomore year

was when Ohio State came.

♪

The very first trip there, I saw something in my son's eye.

Devin then says, "I think this is what I want."

He called them. It was sign and commit.

My junior year, the All-American Bowl goes,

- I commit publicly. - Where will you be playing

your college football in 2025?

For the next three to four years,

I will be taking my challenge to...

the Ohio State University.

- [cheering] - Okay.

REPORTER: Ohio State brings in the number one

quarterback recruit in the 2025 high school class

in five-star Devin Sanchez.

Arguably the best player in his class for Ohio State.

Committed early.

MAN: Just keep an eye on him because I think

he can really start an upward trajectory.

DEVIN: In December, I'm leaving early.

I was packing my bags and getting ready

to come up to Ohio State.

[crowd cheering]

I got here in January. I was on the scout team that week.

We're practicing for that national championship.

COMMENTATOR: It's Ohio State, champions of college football.

DEVIN: They were in their national championship run.

You know, I got to see that.

I mean, I posted something on Instagram.

They done played on the biggest level that you can get to.

I'm really here, I'm really playing for Ohio State.

MALACHI: The college life was expected.

Like, I wasn't expecting to have a whole bunch of free time.

I mean, it's the same, really, process,

routine almost every day.

I feel like I'm adjusted to the program and everything.

But that was how it was for me

going from middle school to high school, too.

Like, my freshman year wasn't so great.

Like, it was rough, but then, like, the sophomore year,

I was, like, all A's and B's and everything, so...

But, yeah, I still feel like I'm adjusting.

I had very high expectations for myself.

And, like, I'm going to keep working hard

until I see those expectations and goals

that I had made for myself.

I just love the physicality of football.

Moving someone from point A to point B against their will.

My name is Malachi Goodman.

I play for Penn State.

I play offensive line.

People usually say, like, I'm a good offensive lineman

because I'm able to move.

And move at my weight.

I'm 6'5", and my weight is 315 right now.

I have fun when I'm doing a competitive activity.

Anything competitive. That's what I love.

I didn't really get that much playing time as a sophomore.

Because it was a lot of seniors that played,

and I also think I wasn't better than them yet.

But I would go on the field every day, hit the ladder,

doing footwork stuff, trying to get my feet faster.

GREG: Sophomore year here, he wasn't starting.

But he just kept working and working.

And, like, he went from a kid who wasn't starting,

who started on his own, he earned it.

And then he just kept getting better and better.

And then you look up and you're like, "Wow, this kid."

You start watching the tape and you're like,

"See what he just did," you know?

He just reached a guy that was way outside

of, like, two steps.

He never made a senior tape.

Yeah, he probably didn't.

Because he was committed already.

Just start it from the beginning.

So that's him on the left there on the screen.

Most big guys can't block little guys like that.

You've got to be athletic to do this.

It looks easy, but when corners are in space,

most big guys will miss.

This, he's downing, takes the kid

all the way to the other side of the field.

And even in this league where, like, the best players play,

you can see how big and quick he is.

Right here, this guy's about to blitz.

This kid will appear in his vision, and him,

without breaking stride right now, is going to take it.

He just took it in stride and blocks the blitzer.

That's why it's going for a touchdown right now.

That looks really easy.

Most kids would have never saw it.

It's amazing for a kid.

Those are back-to-back plays in a game week two of the season.

It's not like a highlight tape.

It shows you why he's as special as he is

and why, as he keeps working, why there's no ceiling for him.

MALACHI: Entering my junior year when I started getting offers,

I kind of saw, like, I can really do this.

I can really go to the NFL.

I can go to big colleges and play at a high level.

There was a lot of a need

and desire for a player like Malachi.

So he had his choice

in what university he wanted to go to.

Through his recruiting process, everyone wanted to show him

all these other things, like the game room,

the whatever, let's go out, let's do this.

He's like, I want to sit with the online coach

and I want to see kids and how they got better.

That's all he cared about.

MALACHI: I chose Penn State because of the coaching staff.

My online coach, Coach Trout, he's a developer.

He gets people to where they want to be.

And I'm going to be one of the greats in the NFL.

Ready to come up to Penn State and get ready to work

so I can be where I want to be.

So Goodman's one of these guys who went from a good prospect

to a really good prospect because he continued to grow.

The guy's got a 6'11 wingspan.

God does not make many people that size who move that well.

CHARLES: That is an enormous,

massive young man.

Someone was nicknaming him Man Mountain.

And I thought it was perfect. Just physical stature, right?

But you can see how he carries it.

BUD: He shows up to the All-Star Games,

performs extremely well, and it was very obvious,

like, oh man, Penn State's got one here.

MALACHI: I did do really well at the All-American Games.

I didn't really let up pressures,

or I didn't give up a sack.

I didn't let up any yards for loss.

People saw that and they were like,

"Okay, this guy's real."

That's when I got my fifth star.

I think I earned whatever rankings I have

with the help of my mom.

TONYA: He was this little terror in the house,

but he was a sweetheart, always.

Still is.

There was a point where I kind of

wanted to get him into, like, modeling.

And that was the inspiration behind these pictures.

So, I went and got him a cute little outfit

and took him to one of those photo places in the mall.

Because he was such an adorable,

I mean, he's still super handsome.

I mean, he's always had those dimples

and the big smile.

And I believe this was his first year of football.

Playing football, he always had to play up.

Based on your age, you can only be

a certain amount of pounds, right?

So he always had to play two levels up.

He has put in so much work and dedication

to finessing his craft.

And now you want me to say that he got it from mom?

I'll take it. I'll say it.

You got it from mom [inaudible]

MALACHI: My mom's personality, she's outgoing.

She plays a big role in my life.

People like to call me a mama's boy.

But I am a mama's boy, so...

TONYA: We've always had a super-close relationship.

We talk about everything.

I know that when he finds that young lady

that is special, I'll be the first person

that he calls and says, "Mom, what do you think?"

Young ladies, beware.

You gotta pass the mama test first.

[chuckling]

MALACHI: Anything that anybody sends me,

like NIL stuff, it gotta go through her first.

So I always send it through her.

Yeah, she is basically my manager.

She calls it a momager, so...

I am a momager.

Everything about him, his life,

from when I get up in the morning,

checking emails, checking his cell phone,

you know, we have the documentary,

he has an agent.

And I just kind of need to stay on top of it, of course,

so that way I can make sure he's doing what he needs to do.

But I love it, I do, I do.

This is where I spent the last ten, 11 years.

I don't know, at some point I'm just like,

okay, he is really growing aggressively.

This was at ten, right?

And if you jump up six months later,

and that's about, what, two inches maybe?

By 12, he was already taller than me.

[laughing]

I was already looking up to him.

We want to see these big size 18 shoes.

It's like a boat, I could probably put

both of my feet in here.

It was a challenge as his foot continued to grow.

I think they only order up to size 13 in the malls,

if you go to a Reebok or what have you, any shoe store.

And so I'm like, this is becoming

more and more of a challenge to get shoes.

Why don't you send a DM or something to Shaquille O'Neal?

He wears, like, a size 21, 22,

so maybe he can help us out and get some shoes.

Malachi was like, "Absolutely not.

"I'm not going to DM Shaq asking him for shoes."

And I'm like, "Well, we'll pay for the shoes.

We just need a little help

with how to acquire shoes this size."

Not my problem anymore. Now it's Penn State's problem.

[laughing]

Thank you, Penn State.

[crowd cheering in the distance]

COMMENTATOR: We begin with the reigning champion,

Ohio State against Texas in Columbus.

New faces abound.

REPORTER: What a beautiful day for football.

COMMENTATOR: Man, early season matchup

against two great football teams.

Being a freshman, no matter how confident you are,

when you walk into your first game,

you're always going to think,

"Am I where I'm supposed to be? Am I ready?"

I've played at such a high level for so long,

but most of the competition that I've played against,

it's not the same level of guys

that I'm going to be going out and competing against now.

Is my family prepared for what I'm about to get into?

GPS VOICE: Let's take Olentangy River Road, Columbus.

In 300 feet, turn left on West Fifth Avenue.

I'm really ready to see him in this scarlet and gray.

We've kind of all been waiting for this moment.

And it came so quickly, you know, it's like, I feel like

it was just January when we were dropping him off.

Now it's time for the season to start.

DANIEL: We kind of look at this game as just like

the first box to check off for the season.

Successfully get through this game,

get your feet wet, get acclimated to this thing.

It's just one of the progressions

that we want to kind of check off

as we kind of move down the road here.

And this is just the first step.

[crowd cheering]

DEVIN: My first game was against

the number one team in the nation,

Texas. I'm going to have the opportunity

to be out there as a freshman.

I was like, "Man, this is real."

[crowd cheering]

When you're actually running out, it's crazy.

I just hear all of this stadium shaking, smoke running.

You got your teammates running out behind you.

You got the band playing. You got the fans screaming.

You don't even know what to do. I kind of froze up.

I was like, "What do I do?

"Do I just keep running? Do I jump?"

I'm out here on the field,

one of the biggest stadiums in college football.

I literally turned around and looked, I was like,

I don't see an empty seat.

This is crazy.

There's literally no seat that's open.

PAUL: And it's been all about the defenses so far, Jim.

JIM: Yeah, the Buckeye defense was able

to force them out on downs. In Texas, defense

has been equally as good.

PAUL: So it will be third down.

And we get early movement on the offensive line.

That'll bring about penalty flags.

Coach Walker turned around and was like,

"Go in the game. Go in the game."

I went in the game. My first play

was kind of that play. I was like, "I'm really here.

"I'm really playing for Ohio State."

PAUL: Third and 11. Ball at the Texas.

Forty-eight for the Longhorns.

Manning straight behind his center.

Hudson out of the shotgun. Gets the snap.

Back to throw from his 40. Manning looks,

fakes, now springs it up left side.

Baxter, who's got it at the 50-yard line.

And that's where linebacker Sonny Styles wrestles him down.

And that will bring a fourth down.

This is amazing, just making plays, you know, from the jump.

PAUL: Fourth and goal

with the ball between the Texas one and two.

Handoff goes to Donaldson.

Nice, into the end zone for a touchdown.

And Ohio State on the board first.

Sayin will pump that one deep down the left sideline.

Tate with it. Take it down in the end zone for a touchdown.

Carnell Tate.

DEVIN: Now it's like it's even louder.

[crowd shouting]

PAUL: Cowboys has to be the loudest

it's been all afternoon right now.

Snapped him in.

Manning looking, looking, throws.

That one going to the right corner of the end zone.

Livingston, caught for a score.

DEVIN: At this point it's 14-7.

It got louder that-- those last two minutes.

- PAUL: Third down. - JIM: He's going to have

to get some first downs here to end this thing.

PAUL: Sayin to go on top with some pressure coming,

throws and it's caught left side and it's in.

It's tackled at the 30. Buckeyes are left to punt.

- And I was out there again. - JIM: Ohio State's gonna

have to earn it right now and earn it

on the defensive side of the football.

Texas scores a touchdown,

it's a whole different ball game.

We're going to see if you're a freshman or not.

We're going to see what you do.

PAUL: First and ten, Texas at their own 15-yard-line.

DEVIN: You know that first play they ran

an out route right at me.

PAUL: Pressure coming, Manning tosses up

the left side, incomplete for Wingo.

He was covered by Devin Sanchez.

When they came back, they ran a wheel route.

PAUK: First, Manning goes back at his sixth to throw.

He zips that one up the left side of the field.

A wounded duck but it's caught by Endries.

A tight end tackled at his own 45.

Endries is knocked down.

At corner, you may take a lot of time,

you got to have short term memory loss.

Because, like, yeah, you may get beat,

but it's like, what you do after.

PAUL: Fourth and five, Texas at the 50.

Got to make this play right now.

DEVIN: My man on the back side, I'm one on one.

He can go to anybody on the field.

PAUL: Manning gets the snap, drops it as 40.

Playoff's a pass that's caught by Endries.

He's tackled shy of the conversion.

And the Buckeyes will take over on downs.

And Ohio State's defense, which has stood strong all day,

stands strongest when it's needed the most.

Now it's like, I literally just played the snaps.

PAUL: Number one falls here in Columbus.

14-7, Ohio State defeats Texas.

Now you got your feet wet, you done played a big game,

now it's only up from here.

BRAD: The full Saturday of college football

is only three and a half hours old.

And the number one team in the country's already lost.

GARY: Yeah, Ohio State is loaded.

There's a few teams that are loaded.

Texas still alive, but you're right.

This is one of the teams everybody is looking at.

BRAD: Right now, Penn State looks like

they're loaded for the same thing.

[overlapping chatter]

MALACHI: Putting on the uniform, I'm just ready to work.

Ready to play football and just grind all day.

BRAD: The Penn State Nittany Lions

might be the favorite to win the Big Ten right now.

Last year they went 13-3, made it all the way

to the college football playoff semifinals

before losing to Notre Dame in a heartbreaking game.

The nucleus of last year's team

is pretty much still intact.

The expectation is always incredibly high,

but there is this stigma around Penn State

that they can never win the big game.

[crowd cheering]

MALACHI: Right now, on the depth chart,

I'm going up against the one's defense,

the two's defense.

So I'm going up against Dani.

Best guys in college football, really.

That's who I'm playing every day.

Just getting better, that's the goal.

There is definitely a lot of talent in the O-line position,

especially left tackles.

I'm not trying to be biased. Or tackles in general.

BRAD: The Wolf Pack and the Nittany Lions

are kicking off.

MALACHI: I really believe that everything

starts with the O-line.

BRAD: Singled in. Touchdown Penn State.

So the whole unit has to be great

in order for everyone else to be great.

JENNY: There's a lot of strength when it comes

to the O-line for Penn State,

and there's so much veteran leadership there

that it's going to be difficult for a true freshman

to start in that role.

BUD: You routinely do see guys who are first-round picks

not starting as true freshmen.

I do think there's a bit of a,

hey man, this is real ball now.

Like, every snap matters.

If you let your guard down, you can get beat,

and that gets our quarterback killed, so,

like, it's a learning process.

BRAD: Now loads and goes to the end zone.

Touchdown, Penn State.

Now I see what it really takes to show up on the field.

BRAD: That's going to do it. The 46-11 final.

MALACHI: Right after the game, it felt good.

We got the win, and the team played great.

My first game day experience was good.

I'm a little down because I wasn't able

to get on the field.

But for the season ahead, I'm just working hard

every day, grinding, keep getting better.

It's one game at a time.

SPORTSCASTER: Game one against Texas.

Not many of the corners got a ton of snaps,

so Sanchez jumping the line

as a five-star on defense.

Part of my personal struggle with this is,

I'm his dad, but I'm always coaching.

As soon as we get back to his place, I'm looking for film.

You know, I'm all over YouTube, trying to see what I can see,

you know, trying to see what-- what I missed,

you know, live at the game.

And, you know, I'm always just looking--

looking for things that he can work on,

you know, ways to help him,

and, you know, just try to-- just try to help him get better.

Part of this is, I wanted to give my boys

what I didn't have.

You know, with Devin, we want him to make it.

We need him to make it, right?

You know, at the end of the day, we want to start,

like, a Manning kind of thing.

Grandpa played, you know, the sons played,

and now they're into that next generation.

You know, this is kind of what I want for my boys.

I want my boys to start that legacy of,

you know, having-- having an NFL family.

I can't wait for my kids to have kids

so I can get back into it and take their kids

and mold them into, you know, what I did with their dads.

That's personally where my head is

and where I want my boys to kind of go with this thing.

How do you feel about the way the game went?

Played as much as I did.

I didn't expect to play that much,

especially, you know, in that--

in that situation at the end,

the two-minute drill where it was 14-7.

But, I mean, it was fun

just being out there for my first time.

DEETRA: It was exciting for us, too.

It was good for me just to get the-- those jitters

because I know my-- my stomach was in knots.

On that one play, though, what'd you-- what'd you think--

what'd you think you could have did better?

- We was in cover two. - Y'all was in cover two?

I was pressed at the line, reroute.

But didn't they-- didn't they switch?

It was a tight end. He came out on the wheel.

He wheeled, right? Yeah.

DEVIN: I'm just helping the safety.

DANIEL: When that guy runs through your zone,

- what should you have done? - What?

Should have touched him.

- Touch him-- - I was already rerouting

the receiver, and I just so happened to see

the tight end come out behind me,

so I was like, I got to run with it.

If I would have kept him in front of me,

I probably could have played on the ball.

You know, he's always taught Devin,

you know, what he needed to do,

how he needed to do it, and he was always a sponge

from three years old, watching him start.

- DEVIN: It was hard growing up. - [Deetra chuckling]

- DEETRA: It's hard. - It was hard.

We used to get into it all the time.

Uh, you know, just calling me out of my room

to go over plays and stuff like that.

DEETRA: Where was the dry erase board?

He would come into the room,

and Daniel would have the dry erase board.

He'd pull it from under the bed,

and he'd walk in like,

"No, not right now."

Everything that you did then, you're doing now.

It's... 100 times more than that little stuff

that we was doing back then.

- It was just to get you-- - DEETRA: Prepare you.

--get you ready for all of that stuff, man.

It's all just a process of force. Like...

learning it, you know, it's faster.

You know, it's college, you know?

It's not high school anymore, so now it's time to step it up.

♪

- [dynamic music playing] - [crowd cheering]

[cheering]

I gotta get a hat. I gotta buy a hat.

Here, and then it was one--

That one is the boot.

It's different. It's exciting. There's a lot of people.

- Oh, I see it. - MAN: Okay.

- Are you guys in line? - MAN: No.

I'm still the rookie, so I'm trying to figure it out.

- Hello. - Hi.

- I want to do the blue visor. - The blue visor?

- Yeah. - Okay.

At the first game, I was hanging out

with a lot of the freshman parents,

but I said I needed to mix it up

and get with some of the veterans

so I could figure out the routine.

Oh, that's too tight.

Know when to walk down, so we could see

the young men, the players, walk in.

[shouting]

You know, it's fun. It's exciting.

I'm happy to have the opportunity to give him a hug.

[crowd cheering]

BRAD: And the quest for a Big Ten

national three-peat continues

here in State College, Pennsylvania today.

TONYA: He's on the sideline, I keep looking for him,

seeing where he is. Hopefully they run the score up,

and maybe he'll get the opportunity

to get a snap. I know that he wants

to show what he has, and the reason that he's here.

But it's going to take more hard work,

and he's going to have to continue to grind,

and he has everything it takes.

BRAD: A shuttle run in the backfield for Pena.

Oh, that's window dressing for Singleton.

Priority to get him unlocked.

TONYA: I think for him, his mindset is like,

I got it, I can do this.

But in this environment, this is a high school.

You have to lean on those who come

before you to make it happen.

[crowd cheering, shouting]

[overlapping shouting]

COMMENTATOR: The natives are happy.

CONNOR: So are the people rooting for points.

These are the chances for the guys in the field

right now for Penn State to say, hey, I'm not sitting

for the rest of the year.

Less than a minute to go,

and Villanova is stonewalled.

Outside run, shut down.

Maddocks on the final play of the game.

Throwing right.

What's he got?

Maddocks lets it fly. It is!

What a catch by Brandon Binkowski

but no shutout for Penn State.

ANNOUNCER: The play has been reviewed,

the quarterback was inbounds.

Touchdown.

[crowd shouting, whistling]

- TONYA: It was a good game. - MALACHI: Yeah.

I was thinking when it got down to the last two minutes

you might have went in because I saw he was swapping out.

The line was all good.

So it was after, right?

Yeah, I gotta go back to the facility.

I know. You didn't get any food?

- No, I didn't. - No?

You don't want anything? You okay?

[crowd clamoring]

I know that he's frustrated, right?

He understands that when you chose Penn State,

you're not going to go as a freshman

playing as a tackle and be the starter.

It's not the likelihood of that for the position that he plays.

It's just not likely.

Because this was almost a blowout.

Did they-- Did they let them keep their six points?

- Or no? - Yeah.

Because I was-- I didn't understand

what was going on at the end of the game.

MALACHI: Do I want to get on the field? Yes.

But do I understand that I'm not ready?

Possibly, yes. I do understand that.

Do I understand that I need to work harder?

Yes.

But I definitely need to outwork the person

or the people that are in front of me right now

so I can be where I want to be.

TONYA: I used to cringe because I know

how he thinks, and he wants to be on the field.

So I'm like, "Oh, my God," I would be freaking out

in the stands

when he's not on the field, he's on the sideline.

I'm freaking out when he's in the game.

It doesn't matter. I'm freaking out regardless.

- How old are you? - Eight.

TONYA: Eight? What's your name?

MALACHI: I think to myself, what am I doing wrong?

Maybe sometimes I doubt myself, but I also got to realize,

like, we have a lot of guys in the O-line room for one.

A lot of talent. A lot of guys

that are going to the NFL.

But there definitely is times of, like, frustration

and, like, what do I need to do better?

TONYA: You know we're going to Gigi's.

- MALACHI: Yeah. - TONYA: Okay. Watch out.

During high school, my freshman year,

it was just like, I was trying

to get on the field at first.

And then, like, my sophomore year,

I wanted to play, I started working,

started getting an office.

And I was like, all right,

this is, like, actually possible.

So I thought I saw it through, did it.

Now I'm here, so...

Time to repeat the whole process.

But I know I got to work for it.

It's not going to be given to me.

So I'm going to wait my turn.

Just keep working hard until I get on the field.

I can't talk about your...

path without getting...

emotional.

I say if I had his attention and focus

when I was in my 20s, like, 25,

I would have just, you know,

probably been running a company at this point.

[laughing]

His head coach from high school had said to him like,

"If you wanted to start as a freshman,

"you had other options."

And we absolutely did. We talked about it.

And, uh...

he's like, "No, no,

"that's not the road that I want.

"I want this road because I know Coach Phil,

"Coach Trout can develop me

and get me to where I want to go."

You know, like I get it, but I'm not sure

how I feel about him staring me down like that.

- Like... - Here, they got some.

This is a cool place.

They have a lot of decor in this restaurant.

- That's a nice restaurant. - MALACHI: Yeah.

- All right. Thank you. - Appreciate it.

- That is awesome. - Thank you.

- Please, enjoy. - Appreciate you.

To Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity.

I thank you for this family here today.

Love this young man.

Always here just to lift him up.

Lord, I ask for your blessings.

- Amen. - Amen.

- Cheers. - Appreciate it.

That looks nice.

[overlapping chatter]

I can get another Shirley Temple, please.

[laughter]

[soothing music playing]

DANIEL SR: When I first moved here, it kind of started,

and then it grew bigger.

All my grandkids are athletic, so I decided to do this,

you know, to keep them motivated.

This is a North Shore ball, so I had that signed,

and then that's another Ohio State ball

that they signed for me.

That's Devin and Aiden when they first started.

Their dad was a coach. He coached them.

Of course, I coached my two boys in Little League

when we were growing up,

so I guess that's where Daniel got it from.

This is just something he has.

I could probably...

open up a gallery with all of the pictures

that he has of kids over the years.

One thing I will point out is that

I'm the only one who's not in here.

But you'll... see a picture of me as a coach up here.

You don't have any of my playing day pictures up here,

so I'm a little salty about that.

But, um, you know,

Just going through, like my dad said, you know,

this is just some of the, you know, pictures like this.

When you get a chance to take these,

you have the goat here, you know?

Just, you know, these are just, like,

moments that we were hoping for,

you know, to be able to put on that Bama jersey,

that Texas jersey.

My expectations for this season for Devin...

All-American.

...we need to be a freshman All-American,

work our way into that starting rotation here at Ohio State,

and don't give that spot back up.

Again, these are just some of the sets of boxes

that we have for him, even if he may not know

that we have those boxes set for him.

We tell him, like, you haven't made it yet.

You still got a lot-- lot to do.

I'm expecting greatness.

I don't expect anything less from him.

COMMENTATOR: With a lot of new faces

and a new defensive coordinator,

there is a lot of excitement about the way

that this Buckeyes defense played with the Texas Longhorns.

REPORTER: It was just an absolutely

clinical performance from the Ohio State defense.

DEVIN: For my first college game, I'm rating myself hard,

like a seven, six, six, seven.

I feel like I played decent for a freshman,

but you know, there's obviously things I can work on.

Some things I need to work on to get better.

This is the point of the season where you start

setting those goals and, you know, just finding out

who you are as a person and a player, and then,

you know, just getting ready for a big time ball.

My first goal is complete,

you know, getting out there on the field.

[crowd cheering]

Now, my second goal is

to come in a freshman All-American.

I got to do that.

Being that freshman and having Coach Patricia

and him being an NFL D.C.,

you know, we basically run an NFL defense.

That's why I came here, I came here to learn

all that and, you know, to be that top five pick.

Up here, it's like, it's way different.

The coach is a little different than my dad.

But, you know, I don't bash him for nothing he's done

because he's a big part of the reason

that I'm here right now. You know, obviously,

he's my first coach, my first trainer,

so he taught me everything I know.

But, at the end of the day, I got to grow up

and really get coached by coaches that get paid to do it.

Just take the things that they can give me

and get to the league to be the corner that I want to be.

Now, I'm ready to get in there on the field

with those guys, you know.

I'm trying to go back to back like a team

that's going to attack for another championship.

MAN: Bryce Underwood is an 18-year-old kid.

- I know he's got all this hype. - [people screaming]

But, he's not going to be the instant savior

for this program like a lot of people thought he could be.

INTERVIEWER: What did they do to you specifically?

They didn't do shit to me. They didn't push me off my game.

I just lost.

If he had another remote, he'd get to work right now.

I can't tell you what it feels like

until I turn the key and open the door,

but it has been an exciting journey.

COMMENTATOR: The fourth catch as a freshman is a touchdown.

You know, I credit it to my son in NIL.

He leveled his mama up and we movin'.

[overlapping shouting]

BEVERLY: It's tough, being out there,

and then it's away to the stadium.

COMMENTATOR: Bryce Underwood and the Wolverines do come

to Lincoln with a bad taste in their mouth.

Two weeks ago,

Michigan lost to Oklahoma.

Every college football game is tough.

- Being a freshman especially. - [crowd shouting]