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Cotton Bowl features graduate students of varying degrees from Clemson, Notre Dame

SportsPulse: From AT&T Stadium, George Schroeder, Scott Keepfer and Mike Berardino give their one key matchup in the Cotton Bowl and prediction for the game. USA TODAY

DALLAS – Drue Tranquill imagines he stood out each day he walked into his “Worship and Music in the USA” course at Notre Dame this fall.

A class of roughly 25 musicians talking music theory alongside an NFL-bound linebacker who’d already completed his degree in mechanical engineering?

“They’re all brilliant organists, pianists, choral conductors,” Tranquill said Wednesday from Cotton Bowl availability. “And I’m sitting there, like, ‘I have no idea what you guys are talking about.