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Game Thread CFP Playoff Cotton Bowl, tOSU vs Texas, Fri. Jan. 10th, 7:30 ET on ESPN

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Texas Defensive Backs Wowed By Jeremiah Smith: “The Whole Country Knows What Type of Talent He Has”

Texas safety Michael Taaffe expressed disbelief that Jeremiah Smith is only a freshman and said he couldn’t compare any receiver he’s faced to the Ohio State star.
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Something tells me Egbuka and Tate are going to go off in this game.

Tate has been abnormally quiet in the post season.

Props to Texas though… I have to admit I’ve always been a fan of theirs. They seem to do things the right way. I hope it’s more of the same but if god forbid we lose id honestly root for them over PSU or ND.
 
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I have to admit I’m getting a little annoyed with the coverage of Texas’ defense.

Are they as a whole the best defense we’ve faced? I think the TCUN front 6 is the best we played but maybe as a whole Texas has an argument.

However they aren’t a top 3 DL that we’ve played and I’m serious.

1. TCUN
2. Oregon
3. Penn State

I can see an argument for being similar to Penn State but they are not as good as the other two. Just tired of hearing already about their DL.

Now I’ll give them that they have good LB and they have 2 very good players in the secondary. However what’s the best offense they’ve played this year?

They missed LSU, Alabama and Ole miss. So it has to be Clemson or Arizona State who just so happens threw for 300 per game and Arizona ran for 200+

Sorry to our guests but what the hell am I missing here?
 
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ASU game was ugly and I blame most the defensive struggles on the offense. At the end of the first half, ASU had 50 pays to UT's 22, and UT was up 17-3. After the 3rd quarter, ASU had 72 plays to UT's 28, and UT was up 24-8. They ended up with 97 plays for the game. About midway the the 2nd quarter, the intensity on D fell off because they were gassed. That's when the O needed to respond with a few long, sustained drives and that didn't happen.

The offense had 3 3-and-outs, a one play drive that ended in a safety, and a 2-play drive that ended in an INT. These stretches of offensive ineptitude (Sark overcomplicating things and Quinn having brain farts) have been a theme all year, and if it happens again in the Cotton Bowl, we're going to lose. There were several games where the D bailed out the offense. The recent Ohio State offense is better than any we've played all year so that's not going to work on Friday.

Against Clemson, Klubnik and the young Clemson receivers were on fire. Several perfect throws into tight windows and tough catches. It's a good defense, maybe not the best in the country though. They've been very good at limiting big plays and forcing opposing offenses to sustain long drives to score any points. But again, none had the weapons that Ohio St has.
 
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