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College Football Honors First Responders, Victims of 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

Saturday marked 20 years since a series of coordinated terrorist attacks hit the United States as four commercial planes were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. But as today's generation of college football players take the field, many of the players are too young to have memories of the day.

"It was our generation's Pearl Harbor," Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck said in a College GameDay interview. "A lot of these guys weren't even born. Some of them were one, some of them were two or three years old. I think it's our job as educators and teachers to make sure that they feel like they did live in that moment.