Joe McGuire going head-to-head with fellow Melbourne punter for US college title
An incredible Australian sporting story is set to unfurl when Joe McGuire goes head-to-head with the son of a former Fitzroy footy great in the US college football championship.
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Eddie McGuire’s punter son Joe is one win away from the college football national championships title.
Joe’s Ohio State Buckeyes beat Texas 28-14 in the Cotton Bowl in Texas, to progress to the final in Atlanta against Notre Dame.
It sets up an incredible Australian story with Joe to square off against another Australian punter, James Rendell, the son of late Fitzroy champion turned recruiter Matt Rendell.
“It’s magnificent,’’ Eddie said from Texas.
“Two boys from Melbourne who were kicking the ball in the Collingwood rooms after the game!”
Joe kicked six times for an average of 42 yards, twice having his punts downed inside the 20.
Rendell’s Fighting Irish won a thriller over Penn State, 27-24.
One more victory and the winning team will head to the White House to meet president Donald Trump.
Eddie and wife Carla were also there last week when the Buckeyes destroyed the No. 1 side Oregon Ducks to win the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Joe made his debut as a punter at the start of September and has retained his position in a competitive side.
“It is huge,” McGuire told Sam Newman’s the You Cannot be Serious podcast.
“When you talk to people, a lot of people in Australia, granted there’s a lot now who follow the college football and understand it, but they think it’s like, you know, Old Xavs versus old Geelong or something like that, or Old Melburnians versus Collegians in the VAFA. When in fact, I was at the last three games I’ve seen over here, watching my son play for the Ohio State, the attendances have been 106, 105, and 102 – and 102,000 was being played in minus 12 degrees at eight o’clock on a Saturday night.
“And the college had, the university was closed and people had gone home for Christmas. Still 102,000 people in there.
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