The Cincinnati Bearcats captured the college football world last season as they climbed up the polls and ultimately into the College Football Playoff.
A Group of Five team finally did the unthinkable, and one person – on the Hawaiian island of Oahu – was especially captivated by the Bearcats' journey to college football's biggest stage.
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"I was watching them on TV, everybody was watching them," Nick Mardner told The Enquirer. "I was really impressed with how everything was going.