As the clock struck zero and the players on the Akron Archbishop Hoban sideline stormed onto the field, Todd Sibley was stopped by a television crew to do an interview. This wasn’t a surprise; after all, the Knights’ star running back and 2017 Ohio State commit had just run for 162 yards and two touchdowns in the hours prior, lifting Hoban to its first-ever Ohio state championship.
“At first it started off as a dream,” Sibley said after the game. “Every high school football player’s dream is to win a state championship so it all started with a dream.