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Freshman season has led Murphy to ‘pretty surreal moment’

When Clemson played Ohio State in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl on December 28, 2019, Myles Murphy was sitting at home in Marietta, Ga., having just inked his National Letter of Intent with the Tigers 10 days earlier.

A year later, after enrolling at Clemson in January, the former five-star defensive end finds himself getting ready to face the Buckeyes in the Sugar Bowl CFP semifinal in New Orleans on Friday.

“It is pretty surreal,” Murphy said this week. “It is kind of funny to think that I was watching this exact game last year and now I’m in it.