Ohio State defeats Texas 28-14 to punch ticket to national championship: Highlights
Ohio State routs Texas 28-14 to punch pass to public title: Features
Jack Sawyer's 83-yard bobble return for a score set the game aside in the last minutes.
Picture: Goodyear Cotton Bowl Exemplary - Ohio State v Texas Jack Sawyer
Jack Sawyer #33 of the Ohio State Buckeyes pursues with the ball recuperating a bumble in the final quarter against the Texas Longhorns during the Goodyear Cotton Bowl at AT&T Arena, in Arlington, Texas, on Friday.Alex Slitz/Getty Pictures
School football's public title matchup is set after Ohio State beat Texas in a season finisher elimination round Friday in Arlington, Texas.
Ohio State crushed Texas, 28-14, in the Cotton Bowl subsequent to constraining a couple of key turnovers in the last 2 minutes, 13 seconds.
The Buckeyes will confront Notre Lady, which crushed Penn Express a day sooner, in the Jan. 20 public title game in Atlanta, a matchup between two of the game's
customary stalwart projects that will cover the main year of the extended 12-group season finisher. Notre Lady mentor Marcus Freeman played at Ohio State. The Irish have not come out on top for a public championship starting around 1988, while the Buckeyes' last title came 10 years prior.
Since losing to equal Michigan for a fourth back to back year in late November, a misfortune that thumped Ohio State out of the Enormous Ten title game and ignited inquiries concerning mentor Ryan Day's employer stability, the Buckeyes are 3-0 in season finisher games.
Ohio State stuck to a 21-14 lead late in the final quarter when Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers, eight yards from a tying score, bungled the ball under tension from Jack Sawyer, an Ohio State cautious end who lives with Ewers three years sooner as green beans in Columbus. Sawyer returned the bobble 83 yards for a score and 28-14 lead with only over two minutes staying in the game.
"I felt [Sawyer], I began floating away, thought I would have been ready to get the ball off before he arrived," Ewers told correspondents. "Be that as it may, you know, I saw Jack running with the ball down the sideline. Also, you know, it sucks, man."
"You want to abandon a heritage?" Day told ESPN in a postgame interview. "You become a legend. He just turned into a whiz at Ohio State."
Told in a postgame interview with ESPN that he would be a "legend," Sawyer grinned.
"I simply need to come out on top for a public title," he said.
On the accompanying drive after Sawyer's score, Ohio State then, at that point, blocked Ewers to guarantee a billet in the program's most memorable public title game starting around 2015.
Texas followed 7-0, and 14-7, just to tie the score each time behind one of the nation's top safeguards, which held star Ohio State wideout Jeremiah Smith to only one catch for three yards. Ewers got done with 283 passing yards and two scores, to go with his interference, while finishing 23 of his 39 passes.
Ohio State quarterback Will Howard, 0-3 in his profession against Texas while playing at Kansas State, at last beat the Longhorns while passing for 289 yards, with one score — a screen pass only seconds before halftime that TreVeyon Henderson transformed into a 75-yard score — and a capture.
