Fans in shock after Ohio State field goal stop sends Texas home in CFP
A College Football Playoff who was scrutinized for the amount of breakouts early on, produced two great semifinals to decide the matchup in the national championship game. Just the day after Notre Dame stunned Penn State in the Orange Bowl, Ohio State held off Texas in the fourth quarter to advance to next Monday night.
After Ohio State took a 21-14 lead in the fourth quarter with a masterful touchdown run capped by Quinshawn Judkins’ short touchdown run, the Longhorns quickly responded. Thanks to some beautiful plays by Steve Sarkisian, Texas found itself at the 1-yard line with less than four minutes to go in the game with a chance to tie things up.
This Ohio State defense has made a living from multiple goal line positions this year, and it did so again here. The Buckeyes stopped a run up the middle on first down before star safeties Caleb Downs and Leighton Ransom made a big play for a seven-yard loss on second-and-goal. Quinn Evers threw an incompletion on third down before defensive end Jack Sawyer entered the game, and maybe the game of the seasonto postpone the game and send Ohio State to the championship game.
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After Ohio State topped its latest goal line with a field goal, college football fans were in shock and started go crazy on social media.
“That game cemented his legacy as one of the best defensive players ever.” Ohio State Football history,” one fan posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Another fan added, “Even as a Longhorn fan, this is one of the greatest all-around games in college football history. The back story of Sawyer and Evers being roommates at OSU and still being good friends today makes it even more poetic.”
Ohio State also made critical goal-line stands in wins over Nebraska and Penn State, as well as in its regular-season losses to Oregon and Michigan, so Texas isn’t the first team to feel the wrath of one of the nation’s best defenses. goal line. With this win, that goal line stand and play by Sawyer will go down as one of the most iconic plays in Ohio State football history.
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