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Heupel on biggest stage of his life

By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 26, 2000

NORMAN, Okla. -- It wasn't that long ago that Josh Heupel was like any other football-crazed kid, standing in his back yard, mud caked on his pants, team down by a touchdown, needing to march his unit around the bushes and past the flag pole to win the national championship. A few slants, an out, and a post pattern or two later, and little Heupel would be the hero, leaping across the burnt South Dakota grass, throwing his arms in the air and screaming in celebration. He was undefeat ...

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