It only seemed appropriate that Florida State was playing Notre Dame on Sunday night because this was an even more inspirational story than “Rudy.”
Unlike the famously enhanced and dramatized version of the movie about former Notre Dame walk-on Rudy Ruettiger, however, the story of FSU transfer quarterback McKenzie Milton is 100 percent true.
A kid from Hawaii comes to play quarterback half-a-world away at UCF, leads the Knights to an undefeated season, a self-proclaimed national championship and a national-best 24-game winning streak. … Then, after suffering a gruesome knee injury against the team’s biggest rival in the final regular-season game of his junior season, he nearly has his leg amputated.