Keeler: Mines football will be back. Back playing for NCAA football national championship. Back to finish what this 2022 team started. "A good time to be an Oredigger."

Colorado School of Mines quarterback John Matocha (10) looks for an open receiver in the second half of the NCAA Division II college football championship against the Ferris State on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022 in McKinney, Texas. (AP Photo/Emil T. Lippe)

By Sean Keeler | skeeler@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: December 17, 2022 at 7:14 PM MST | UPDATED: December 17, 2022 at 8:52 PM MST

Getting your player ready...

Mines will get its share. Chad Friehauf was certain of that much late Saturday afternoon, even as he wished for a barrel of rum and sugar 300 pounds to stick in front of Ferris State’s defensive line.

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Keeler: Mines football will be back. Back playing for NCAA football national championship. Back to finish what this 2022 team started. “A good time to be an Oredigger.”

“People should be proud of where the program’s been,” said Chad Friehauf, Mines’ 2004 Harlon Hill winner, after the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA title game ended in a defeat to Ferris State.

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