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The 2025 Cotton Bowl Classic rematch had the aforesaid result.
No. 3 Ohio State handled Arch Manning and defeated the top-ranked Texas Longhorns with a 14-7 triumph successful Columbus connected Saturday.
The Buckeyes defeated the Longhorns, past led by Will Howard and Quinn Ewers, respectively, to beforehand to past season's nationalist championship, which Ohio State won.
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Texas entered Ohio Stadium arsenic the No. 1 squad successful the federation and did not look similar it 1 bit.
It took a portion for some offenses to get going, arsenic the teams turned the shot implicit connected downs connected their opening drives. Rising superstar Jeremiah Smith past had 2 drops for OSU connected its adjacent drive, but the Buckeyes were capable to find the extremity portion with astir 9 minutes near successful the archetypal fractional with a rushing touchdown connected 4th and goal. The Longhorns punted connected each of their last 4 drives of the archetypal half.
After the Buckeyes went three-and-out to unfastened the 2nd half, the Longhorns’ discourtesy was moving. But it was stopped again connected 4th down, this clip close astatine the extremity line, arsenic Manning tried to propulsion for six himself.
Ohio State again had to punt aft conscionable 3 plays, but Manning returned the favour with an interception that was returned to the Buckeyes’ 32. OSU got crossed midfield, and, connected 2nd and 7 from the Texas 40, backmost Julian Sayin recovered Carnell Tate for the people to marque it a 14-0 Buckeyes pb with 13:08 to spell successful the game.
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Texas got crossed midfield successful an effort to statesman a comeback, and Manning got bailed retired erstwhile what looked similar an intercepted walk was ruled an incomplete walk aft review. They got wrong the reddish zone, but a 4th and 3 walk into the extremity portion fell to the turf. It was the 3rd consecutive 4th down that was not converted aft getting their archetypal of the afternoon.
In desperation mode, the Longhorns marched again, and Manning yet recovered the extremity zone, hitting Parker Livingstone for a 32-yard people with 3:28 to go.
Texas forced yet different 3 and retired and got the shot backmost astatine their ain 15 with 2:26 to go. On the Longhorns' 2nd play, Manning threw a cleanable 30-yard pass, but they were incapable to get different archetypal down.
Manning went 17-for-30 for 170 passing yards, but 132 of them came successful the 4th fourth alone. It was Manning's archetypal roadworthy commencement of his career, and it was a pugnacious task against what whitethorn beryllium the champion defence successful the country.
In his archetypal crippled arsenic a starter, Sayin was 13-for-20 for 126 yards.
Perhaps the toughest trial for the Buckeyes is successful the books, and they'll person a mates tuneups against Grambling State and Ohio University for the adjacent 2 Saturdays.
Texas volition apt get backmost into its accustomed winning ways arsenic well. The Longhorns big San Jose State, UTEP and Sam Houston State the adjacent 3 weeks.
For some squads, it's this Saturday that volition beryllium connected their minds for possibly the remainder of the play and the playoffs.
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