Arguably the top defensive end in the state and playing on an unbeaten team, Oakdale defensive end Dom Nichols is this week's guest on The Final Score podcast.

Nichols chats with host Greg Swatek about his size (6-foot-6, 250 pounds), how it shaped his sports career growing up and why it's such a conversation piece pretty much everywhere he goes. Does he prefer to play football or basketball? What are his expectations for himself and the Oakdale football team this season? And what is coach Jim Harbaugh like after Nichols was recruited to play next season for one of the top college football teams in the country, the University of Michigan? What was the recruiting process like?

All of those questions are answered during the course of their conversation.

Prior to that, FNP sports writer Alexander Dacy joins Greg to look back on Week 5 of the high school football season in Frederick County, look ahead to Week 6 and discuss the unusual situation going at Brunswick High School with its head football coach, Jerry Smith.

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