Cotton Bowl score, results: Ohio State handles Texas, advances to title game

 Ohio State will meet Notre Woman for the public title.

The Buckeyes safeguard halted Texas close to the objective line with under three minutes to go as Jack Sawyer's bobble get back with 2:13 leftover gave the Buckeyes a 28-14 win over the Longhorns in Friday night's Cotton Bowl.

Sawyer stripped Quinn Ewers on fourth down and recuperated the ball himself before authoritatively running it 83 yards for the score.

"I saw the ball jump out right to me after I handled him and I was thinking I just need to remain on my feet since like I said, I nearly shut down when I saw all that green grass before me," Sawyer said in a postgame interview on ESPN.

Following by seven, Texas had first and objective from the Ohio State 1-yard line after consecutive pass impedance punishments in the end zone. Jerrick Gibson got halted for no increase on a first down run up the center. That drove Texas to pitch it to the outside to Quintrevion Wisner on second down.

That worked out ineffectively. Ohio State's protection read the pitch flawlessly and halted Wisner for a 7-yard misfortune. Ewers' third-down pass to Ryan Wingo got tipped at the line of scrimmage and afterward Sawyer fell off the edge on fourth down to secure the game.

Ewers began his school profession at Ohio State prior to moving to Texas after his solitary season with the Buckeyes. Sawyer was his flat mate at Ohio State.