Ryan Day credits Ohio State’s past for CFP win against Texas
The The Ohio State football team has been through a ton this season, and last year she wouldn’t even get a chance to compete for the state title after two setbacks in the regular season. Now, though, the Buckeyes got hot at the right time and pushed through a team of 12 College Football Playoff until the championship game. On Friday night, Ryan Day and the company knocked off Texas in the semifinals at the Cotton Bowl.
This game tested the mettle of this Ohio State team. After defeating Tennessee and Oregon in their first two CFP games, the Buckeyes found themselves in a tight battle with Texas in the fourth quarter of the Final Four. In the end, a touchdown by Quinshawn Judkins and a the goal line stand that is becoming a signature of this Ohio State team he lifted to a 28-14 victory over the Longhorns.
After the game, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day talked about the Buckeyes’ two losses this season and the adversity that came from them helped them pass this tight fourth quarter, according to Chris Vannini of the Athletics.
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“If we hadn’t gone through those things, we wouldn’t have gone as far as we did in the fourth quarter,” Day said, per Vanina. “I couldn’t be more proud, but we have to finish this thing, and they know it.”
Ohio State went through a lot of adversity during the regular season. Their 32-31 loss to Oregon in Eugene was a coin toss game that could have gone either way, but a mental error by quarterback Will Howard cost them dearly at the end of the game. Then the Buckeyes played their worst game of the year in a rivalry loss to Michigan that was as big a problem as we’ve had in the country this season.
Since that loss at Michigan, Ohio State has crushed Tennessee, avenged Oregon in another blowout and showed grit and resilience to defeat Texas in the fourth quarter. Now Dan and company are just 60 minutes away from a national championship. The Buckeyes will try to stake their claim to the top of the college football mountain on Monday, January 20th against Notre Dame.
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