Ohio State vs. Texas Cotton Bowl Preview: A Close Battle

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00:00Ohio State and Texas, of course, will play Friday night in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl.

00:05That will be the other semi.

00:07Got to 6 1⁄2 yesterday.

00:08I've seen that down to 5 1⁄2 at Jerry's World here for this one, minus 5 1⁄2 for

00:14Ohio State with the 53 1⁄2 with the total there.

00:19Look, Ohio State looks great right now.

00:21I know you spent probably a lot of time on it yesterday, but I don't think that they're

00:26going to blow Texas out like they did Oregon.

00:28I don't think that Texas is going to no-show the game like Oregon no-showed in the Rose

00:32Bowl.

00:33I think it's going to be a close game.

00:34Ohio State is going to win, but I think it's going to be a close game.

00:36I was really disappointed in Texas against Arizona State, other than the fact that they

00:40had the Sun Devils in 13.

00:41The fact that they were up 16 points in the fourth quarter and blew that game, and then

00:46somehow miraculously won the game in double overtime, I was not impressed with them at

00:52all.

00:53I will say this, Ohio State's defense is literally, I think it's better than literally every single

01:02NFL defense going right now.

01:04Their defense is so physical.

01:08They were knocking Oregon the snot out of their faces on every run, like they were physically

01:14beating the shack out of them.

01:16I have never seen hits like that since the 85 Bears.

01:20That defense gives up nothing at all.

01:24Texas is dead.

01:26They're not going to be able to do anything against this defense.

01:28I don't care what it is.

01:29And they're passing.

01:30I'll give you Golden, and Ohio State's not going to play as bad as Oregon did against

01:35Golden.

01:36Golden will not have a huge day against the Ohio State Buckeyes secondary.

01:40And let me tell you another thing, running against them is impossible, and I do not believe

01:46anyone can stop Jeremiah Smith or Ibuka or Howard.

01:50You've had many days of me talking about how bad Will Howard sucks.

01:54I don't care how bad he sucks.

01:55When you got receivers that good, I can throw them to him.

01:59And he's hitting them right now, that's for sure at this point.

02:03This is to win it all with four teams left.

02:07Ohio State the favorite, minus 105.

02:09Everyone else, you know, about the same, 384, 480 for Notre Dame, Texas and Penn State.

02:14So a tough order for everyone to take Ohio State down.

02:17I'm glad I picked a few teams that are favored to go.

02:21So let's see if they can get it done.