With less than 48 hours until the college football semifinals kickoff, NBC Sports’ Eric Froton (@CFFroton) took a dive into the player prop market and laid out a handful of his top plays for bettors.

Elsdon was placed in a foster home as a toddler, then adopted by his parents in central Pennsylvania. He kept the last name of his biological parents as a reminder of where he came from. He got into football (as a water boy) when he was 4 because his dad was a coach. He stayed in it, in large part because “I had a bunch of buddies who played.”

The Orange Bowl between Penn State and Notre Dame could be a rock fight, and Texas can keep it close against Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.