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Colorado School of Mines LB Mack Minnehan’s Outrageous Half-Beard Going Viral

The Orediggers star's facial hair is quintessentially, wonderfully Division II.

Patrick Andres

Far from the madding crowd of FBS, the College Football Playoff and the bowl system, the game of college football remains consistently strange.

Take the example of redshirt senior Colorado School of Mines outside linebacker Mack Minnehan, a viral sensation Saturday—mere hours before the Orediggers’ national championship showdown with Ferris State in McKinney, Texas—due to his unusual facial hair.

Minnehan’s look is unconventional, to say the least. How many half-beards can you count on Georgia, Michigan, TCU, and Ohio State?

However, the recipe seems to work for him. The Woodville, Wash. native has 59 tackles and 5.5 sacks this season, and the Orediggers are 13–2 after losing its first two games. They boast 84–10 and 80–0 wins over nearby Adams State and Fort Lewis on the season.

Colorado School of Mines’s players—shaven, unshaven, and half-shaven—will look to bring a national title back to Golden at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday against the Bulldogs of Big Rapids, Mich.

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Patrick Andres
PATRICK ANDRES

Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .

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