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.

Fanatics has already flagged this Ohio State Buckeyes Nike College Football Playoff 2025 National Championship Game A-Town Bound T-Shirt as “Almost gone,” with only sizes small and medium remaining as of Sunday morning. The good news is, there are a lot more options to choose from, but wait too long, and other items might go missing too.

Two of the most popular t-shirts in the Championship-bound collection still have plenty of sizes available, including the top-selling Nike College Football Playoff 2025 Cotton Bowl Champions Locker Room T-Shirt. Available in sizes small to 2XL, this shirt features 2025 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Champs graphics, and the “On Our Way to the A” slogan.

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This shirt says it all, and if you order soon, you can get it before the big Championship game.

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The other best-seller has a focus on what’s next, with big bold Title Bound graphics in Ohio State Buckeyes colors. Best of all, the National Championship Game Dream Success T-Shirt is a bargain on this list, at just $29.99, and available in even more sizes, up to 5XL.

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The best buy in the Championship-bound collection has got to be this National Championship Game Dream Success T-Shirt, for just $29.99.

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There’s plenty of more Ohio State Buckeye’s championship-bound t-shirts in the full collection on Fanatics. Fans can also find other gear, like these top-selling Nike College Football Playoff 2025 National Championship Media Day Tech Fleece Jogger Pants, plus hoodies, pennants and more.

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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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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