Cotton Bowl Showdown: Texas vs. Ohio State Preview

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00:00on a Friday night in the heart of Texas, Dallas, the site of

00:04the Cotton Bowl, not the actual Cotton Bowl Stadium, but that

00:07being AT&T Stadium, Jerry World, of course, the home of the

00:11Cowboys for the in state team in Texas, taking on the national

00:15championship favorites entering the Final Four. That would be

00:19Ohio State the Buckeyes a five and a half point favorite

00:23against the Longhorns for Friday night in the Cotton Bowl. The

00:26total stands at 53 and a half and Joe to me the story of this

00:30game as we begin our breakdown is the market movement we have

00:34seen projected hypothetical numbers if Ohio State won the

00:38Rose Bowl in Texas outlasted Arizona State in the Peach

00:42Bowl. The Buckeyes will be an ever so slight favorite against

00:45the Longhorns a point and a half a couple of cents on the money

00:48line Ohio State overwhelmingly impressive against Oregon in

00:52the Rose Bowl, Texas struggled and escaped into overtimes

00:57against ASU as a two touchdown favorite. So the perceived

01:01notion maybe Texas not as good as we thought. And oh, this Ohio

01:06State team is the team we expected all year to win a

01:10national championship line open up for the Cotton Bowl at four

01:15and a half after those two results on New Year's Day, and

01:18then quickly got bet up to five and a hook. Joe, we love the

01:21FanDuel Sportsbook. It is the sponsor of this show. But in

01:24other spots, this line is even closer to a touchdown is the

01:29spread too large? Or does it feel fitting for Friday night

01:32the Cotton Bowl?

01:34I listen, I had said watching that Ohio State mauling of

01:40Oregon that no matter what, the value was going to be on Texas

01:46because recency bias was going to creep in. We were going to

01:49see Texas who had to go to overtime there to beat Arizona

01:53State and yet we watched Ohio State make the number one team

01:57in the country look like they didn't even belong in the same

02:00field. So we all knew Ohio State was going to get a ton of

02:04public love in this one. So is the value in Texas? Yes. Does

02:10that mean they're going to cover this number? Absolutely not. It

02:15has absolutely nothing to do with it. I do think the best

02:18team is Ohio State. I have a ticket on Ohio State to win

02:23everything here. And that includes them beating Texas

02:27here, Ben, I don't see Texas going toe to toe with how this

02:32Ohio State team is rolling right now. And the other problem I

02:36have to hear, yeah, or my only concern with Ohio State is that

02:42this team put so much energy and effort to get even with Oregon,

02:46that that was the game they wanted, Ben, that they looked

02:49past Michigan again, because they thought they were going to

02:51get it in the Big 10 championship. And then they fell

02:55flat there. And then they had to wait for the playoffs in order

02:59to exact that revenge. And they did. And they did in a big way.

03:03There is no history here between Texas and Ohio State, two very

03:08rich historic programs, but not against one another necessarily

03:12here. And my only fear is that maybe Ohio State left it all out

03:17for Oregon, which will show up early in this game. But I do

03:21think that defense and offensively, the best team

03:24remaining is Ohio State. And I do think they will eventually

03:29get it done here, not just in this game, but in the national

03:32championship game.

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