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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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2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN

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The goal line stand starts on Page 95.
Legitimate fap material.
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Thank you for the salt mine. Delicious.

BuckeyeNation27 said:
Show me where I quit on the team. I'll show you when you did. In the 3rd quarter.
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Only thing I will say, your message, specifically: "CALL IT AN ACCUMULATION OF BITCHING LIKE A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL FOR YEARS. WAHHHHHHH. WE'VE NEVER BEEN DOWN RHE WHOLE GAME AND THERE'S 5 MINUTES LEFT IN THE THIRD QUARTER BUT IM SO FRAGILE I HAVE TO MENTALLY GIVE UP SO I DON'T GET HURT IF WE LOSE. MAN UP OR GO TO THE CRY BABY THREAD WITH THAT SHIT." single handily healed the group chat. We needed it. I loved it. GPA.
 
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I'm going to be up for a while so I'll write some postgame thoughts right now....

1. The Buckeye offense was statistically pretty good (370 total yards, 6.5 yard per play, 4/11 on 3rd and 4th down) but was helped immensely by TreVeyon Henderson's 75-yard touchdown reception in the waning seconds of the first half. Take out that play and the Buckeyes gained 295 total yards on 5.25 yards per play. Add in a bad interception that killed a potential game-changing drive to start the second half and several penalties that hamstrung other drives and you can understand why the Buckeye offense looked worse than their stats. In the end, they were good enough to win. Barely.

2. TreVeyon Henderson's 75-yard touchdown reception was his 7th touchdown of 50+ yards for his Ohio State career, tying him with Devin Smith for 4th-place in that category. The only Buckeyes with more touchdowns of 50+ yards are Ted Ginn Jr (16); Ezekiel Elliot (8); and Braxton Miller (8). Henderson is so good in the open field that it is sometimes baffling how the offensive braintrust can't seem to consistently get him "in space".

3. With freshman phenom Jeremiah Smith (1 reception, 3 yards) getting maximum attention from the Longhorn defense, Carnell Tate filled the void with 7 catches for 87 yards.

4. Jack Sawyer's 83-yard scoop and score was the longest ever for Ohio State, topping Rob Kelly's 79-yarder against Purdue on October 19, 1996. By the way, can you name a bigger play in Buckeye history? "Holy Buckeye" was a tremendously clutch play and Brent Musburger's call was absolutely legendary, but it came against a mediocre Purdue team in what could have been (but only in retrospect was not) a relatively meaningless regular season game. "85 Yards Through the Heart of the South" came on an equally large stage (the 2015 Sugar Bowl against #1 Alabama), but it put the Buckeyes up two touchdowns late and essentially "iced" the game. Sawyer's play was a potential 14-point swing, not only killing the Longhorns' goal-to-go drive but also giving the Buckeyes the dagger that they needed to put the game away. Sawyer has been on an unreal terror in the playoffs and this play will go down in Buckeye history as one of the greatest ever.

5. After Texas tied the score at 14, I said that Will Howard would have to win the game ... and I doubted that he could do so. After that time, Howard completed 7 of 10 passes for 63 yards with a sack and fumble (recovered by himself) – not exactly the stuff of legend. However, with the Buckeyes facing 4th-and-2 from the Texas 34-yard line, Howard ran a QB draw from the shotgun that gained 18-yards and but for a shoestring tackle would have gone to the house – this is exactly the kind of play that Craig Krenzel would make time and time again during the 2002 National Championship run. The Buckeyes would eventually end that drive with a 1-yard touchdown run from Quinshon Judkins with 7:02 left in the game to take a not-very-comfortable 21-14 lead.

6. As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, Howard's 4th-down heroics were made possible by Gee Scott Jr turning a 3-yard pass into a 7-yard gain with some hard running and a pair of broken tackles. Coming to the end of his fifth season in Columbus, Scott has only 51 career receptions for 419 yards and 4 touchdowns, which are far below what were expected from a "Top 100" recruit. But Scott has faithfully stuck with the program and this year he has contributed in ways that don't always show up on the stat sheet. Kudos.

7. Unanimous All American safety Caleb Downs officially sealed the victory with an interception with 1:44 left in the game. Downs been the glue of the Buckeyes' "number one" defense all season long – a transfer portal grand slam.

8. On to Notre Dame for the national championship!
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
You’re totally right…

what a game and I’m shocked we won how we won. This is normally not a game we would’ve won.
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It was definitely trending towards the type of game that Day has lost historically, but he, the staff, and the players pulled it out. Winning a game like this says more about Day having potentially turned a corner than either of the first playoff games, IMO
 
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