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 mishandle 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 bobble 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 in the wake of driving 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 match Michigan for a fourth continuous year in late November, a misfortune that thumped Ohio State out of the Enormous Ten title game and started inquiries concerning mentor Ryan Day's employer stability, the Buckeyes are 3-0 in season finisher games.
Ohio State gripped 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 rookies in Columbus. Sawyer returned the mishandle 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. "However, you know, I saw Jack running with the ball down the sideline. Also, you know, it sucks, man."
