"At the opening meeting I told them, 'Guys, this is going to be a special year,' " Wagner recalled. "I really did feel like we had the ingredients. Now they're going into the history books. When they come back in 10 years, or even play in our alumni game next year, they're going to have those kind of memories and stories. A lot of tradition has been built here, and now they have the opportunity to be at the pinnacle of that."