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The last coach to beat Joe Burrow in a playoff game: 'How can you not root for the guy?'

What does Greg Dempsey hold over a group of five coaches that includes the highest-paid in college football, a national champion and a Super Bowl winner?

Dempsey, the head football coach for the last 20 seasons at Central Catholic, a 600-student high school in Toledo, is the last coach to beat Joe Burrow in a playoff game.

In 2014, Dempsey's Central Catholic squad beat the Burrow-led Athens Bulldogs in a 56-52 shootout in the Division III state championship game at Ohio Stadium in Columbus.

Since that loss, which Burrow called "the worst day of my life," Burrow has gone 5-0 in the playoffs.