Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and TCU coach Sonny Dykes acknowledge the impacts their dads had on them getting to the Fiesta Bowl in the CFP.
willing wins to that 3-3-5 defense creating turnovers, nobody is above anybody else on the team.
Harbaugh said he and Dykes were talking earlier in the week about how blessed they were to be raised in coaching families. He hung around his dad's teams at a very early age. Jim Harbaugh ended up being the quarterback on Michigan's 1985 team that beat Nebraska 27-23 on New Year's Day 1986 in the Fiesta Bowl.
"The real clinic was afterwards," Harbaugh said."They'd go to a hotel bar and have a beer. All of a sudden, paper and napkins came flying out. They're drawing plays. They couldn't wait to talk football and share football. You'd tell them everything that you know."Saturday's Fiesta Bowl showdown at 2 p.m., at State Farm Stadium"That's something that's changed," Harbaugh said.
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