Welcome back to another edition of Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes football and recruiting podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network.

We got a big one here to preview.

Miami in the Cotton Bowl against Ohio State.

It doesn't get any bigger than this in the quarterfinal round.

Gabby Urruthia and I will dive into things here in a quick minute.

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two Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas, in Jerry's World, set to kick off Wednesday,

December 31st, New Year's Eve at 7.30 p.m. Eastern.

This game will be televised on ESPN. So let's go through our little prelude here, as we always do, to kind of set the table for a matchup that the hurricanes are set to take on. We'll start with injury talk,

right? Really the main one to know going into this game is the status of cornerback Damari

Brown. He is out for this game with his lower extremity injury. He was in, he was seen in a boot,

what was it, at the Texas A&M game.

And so just hasn't progressed enough since then.

And he's unfortunately going to be out for this game against Ohio State.

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