Merlin made Utah State matter for once in college football. I'm pretty sure they finished top 10 the year they went to the Sun Bowl. He won the Outland, 3 time Academic AA, AA his Sr. year, graduated summa cum laude in Finance. Some footage of him out there for USU.
Of course I mainly remember him doing color on the Rose Bowl for NBC as a kid and working AFC games w Enberg, plus his long running commercials for FTD flowers.