The 12-team College Football Playoff continues Wednesday when (4) Arizona State faces (5) Texas in the Peach Bowl. This game marks only the second all-time meeting between the programs. Texas defeated Arizona State 52-34 in the 2007 Holiday Bowl in their first and only matchup.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian and Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham have remained on the forefront of more than just X’s and O’s.

ATLANTA — Arizona State has plenty of admirable traits that have helped pushed the Sun Devils into college football’s version of the elite eight. Modesty is not one. “If you’re a competitor and you don’t believe that you’re the best,