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(Editor’s note: IUPUI journalism students have covered the College Football Playoff National Championship since its inaugural game in 2015. This year, for the first time, four students – Meghan Rominger, Bryan Carter, Jordan Morey and Zach Powell — covered the game. Here are the moments they will remember.)   Ten years later, another once-in-a-lifetime experience …

By Meghan Rominger | @MeghanRominger Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — The first cold-weather location to host a College Football Playoff National Championship added another major sporting event to a collection that has dramatically transformed the image of this city in the last half century. A traditional morning-after news conference designed to pass the hosting …

By Meghan Rominger | @MeghanRominger Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — As a high school quarterback dreaming of one day making it big, Georgia’s Stetson Bennett IV was aware of his strengths, the areas of his game that needed improvement, and the weaknesses that scouts and teams couldn’t easily overlook. On the shorter side for …

By Jordan Morey | @JordanAMorey Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — As the Heisman Trophy winner’s pass sailed down the left sideline, Georgia coach Kirby Smart experienced Déjà Vu. Smart wasn’t taken back to the bludgeoning the Bulldogs received in the Southeastern Conference Championship game against Alabama last month. Nor did he go back to …

By Jordan Morey | @JordanAMorey Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — Growing up in small-town southern Georgia, Stetson Bennett IV would often listen to old clips on YouTube of Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Larry Munson calling Bulldogs football games. Bennett wasn’t born until 18 years after the University of Georgia claimed its last national championship, but it …

By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program PASADENA, Calif. — Georgia linebacker Lorenzo Carter couldn’t stop smiling. “It all happened so fast,” he said of the first blocked field goal of his career, the moment that soon led to a historic victory. Carter stood in the hallway outside the Georgia locker room at …

By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES — What’s the first item on a 242-pound man’s to-do list when he’s dropped in the middle of an 8-year-old girl’s princess-packed paradise? Georgia linebacker Lorenzo Carter had Mickey on his mind. “The first thing I had to do was get my ears,” Carter …

By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES — When freshman Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm takes the field New Year’s Day in Rose Bowl Stadium to the roar of thousands of screaming fans, he doesn’t expect to feel nervous. Pitching in front of 30,000 fans in the Little League World Series tends …

By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES –– It was time to make an appearance. Baker Mayfield had missed all non-football activities with the Oklahoma Sooners over the last three days due to illness, and he was prepared to miss another. But when the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback turned on the television …

By Zach Wagner | @zachwagner22 Sports Capital Journalism Program SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – In the crimson afterglow of a fourth national championship in seven seasons and the fifth in his career overall, Alabama coach Nick Saban thought of a far more humbling experience. He remembered a moment he shared with former Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne …