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Should Ohio State football be ranked higher than Alabama in the Associated Press Top 25 poll?
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State soccer opened up the season by beating a top-five opponent by double digits at house, whereas Alabama shut out Utah State — a Group of 5 workforce — as the highest two groups within the preseason Related Press High 25 ballot.
The Crimson Tide saved their prime spot after Week 1 whereas the Buckeyes moved all the way down to No. 3 because of Georgia having its manner with Oregon on a impartial web site. Every week later, OSU beat Arkansas State by a big margin whereas Alabama limped out of Austin, Texas, barely escaping an upset in a sport that got here all the way down to Bryce Younger breaking off a sack.
Now each groups are 2-0, with the Bulldogs’ sport in opposition to Samford anticipated to be a blowout. They could have the strongest declare to be ranked No. 1, so the place does that depart Alabama and Ohio State?
“The excellent news is we’ve already performed a top-five opponent,” head coach Ryan Day stated after beating Arkansas State. “So we’ve already confirmed ourselves in some methods.”
There’s advantage behind that assertion, however it additionally holds so much much less worth now that Notre Dame is 0-2 after Marshall upset the Irish, 26-21, in South Bend. Now that bargaining chip is off the desk for a workforce that’s but to play it’s finest sport. However the identical might be stated for Alabama, who wanted a late-game drive to beat a workforce enjoying many of the sport with out its beginning quarterback.
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The No. 8 Ohio State Buckeyes beat the No. 5 Texas Longhorns 28-14 at the Cotton Bowl to advance to the 2025 CFP National Championship, and fans can celebrate with a brand new collection of Championship-bound gear available from Fanatics. But don’t wait, because this hot drop is already starting to sell out online.
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Ohio State will clash with the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the CFP National Championship on Monday, January 20. It’s the first ever National Championship under the new, expanded CFP format, and it takes place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ohio State is favored by 9 1/2 points over Notre Dame in the second-largest point spread in the 10-year history of the playoff. The Buckeyes have won their three playoff games by 14 points or more. Notre Dame beat Penn State 27-24 in the semifinals on a field goal in the waning seconds.
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Three power-play goals and the goaltending of Liam Souliere helped the No. 3 Gophers men’s hockey team rebound with a 6-1 victory over No. 11 Ohio State on Saturday at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
“It just was not a good look to us last night,” coach Bob Motzko said. “Tonight, absolutely the other way around from the first shift. All four lines, all the defensemen, Liam was great in net, and give our guys credit, we responded. I hope it’s a lesson for us, and I hope that’s a game to get us going now.”
The Gophers (18-4-2, 9-2-1 Big Ten) scored three times in the first eight minutes.
A penalty on the Buckeyes for too many players on the ice put the Gophers on the power play just 86 seconds into the game. Mike Koster quickly converted the opportunity to open the scoring with 17:18 left in the first period.
A little over five minutes later, Mason Nevers and Connor Kurth scored 15 seconds apart to give the Gophers a 3-0 lead with 12 minutes left in the first period.
Less than two minutes into the second period, the Gophers went on the power play again, and Koster again converted to make it 4-0.
Jimmy Snuggerud made it 5-0 with a power-play goal with 6:05 remaining in the second period.
The Texas Longhorns fell just short of advancing to their first CFP National Championship game for the second year in a row, losing 28-14 to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. And while the final score may not indicate, the Longhorns were a yard away from potentially sending the game to overtime late in the fourth quarter.
After back-to-back defensive pass interference calls on what was shaping up to be a 75-yard drive, all Texas needed was a yard to punch it into the endzone and tie the game at 21 with under 4 minutes remaining in regulation.
However, after the first-and-goal run up the middle for freshman running back Jerrick Gibson was held for no gain, the controversial halfback toss play call was made. With Quintrevion Wisner lined up to his left, Quinn Ewers was in the shotgun as he tossed it to Wisner, on the first of two disastrous plays that doomed the Longhorns’ national championship hopes.
“That’s one of those plays, if you block it all right, you get into the end zone,” Steve Sarkisian said of his play-call. “We didn’t, and we lost quite a bit of yardage.”
So what went wrong on the toss play? Well, as always the devil is in the details in football. During his post-game interview, starting left tackle Kelvin Banks explained exactly what went wrong for the Longhorns on the ill-fated toss play. He was one of a few Texas players that was asked about the sequence after the game.
“I saw the boundary safety to come down [Latham Ransom], and I thought it was gonna be a big hole behind me, because that’s kind of how the play [was] designed to go,” Banks said. “I’m supposed to kick him out. Trey hits the hole behind me, and then while I’m kicking him out, I just I hear screaming, y’all, so I look, I’m turning my left, and then Downs is making the play.”
So on the surface, the toss seems to indicate that the play was supposed to see the Longhorns capture the edge and run wide to the goal-line. Banks revealed that is not the case. Instead, as shown in the video above, the hole that is vacated by Banks pulling is supposed to be where Wisner is designed to cut it back and score.
However, that is where the heads-up play is made by Buckeyes safety Caleb Downs, who shoots the gap left open by Banks, forcing Wisner to continue running wide, where he then is corralled for a seven-yard loss by Ransom.
If Downs is fooled by Banks pulling and runs with him instead of shooting the gap, then this play may be remembered entirely differently. But as Sarkisian said post-game, Ohio State’s defense made the play, while Texas didn’t, which unfortunately for the Longhorns ended up costing them the game.
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