Does Ohio State or Texas have the QB advantage? | CFP Semifinal Cotton Bowl Preview & Predictions
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Texas and Ohio State meet in the College Football Playoff at the Cotton Bowl. David Ubben, Chris Vannini, and Damien Harris preview the semifinal matchup first before predicting the winner. How will Texas defend Jeremiah Smith? Would you rather have Will Howard or Quinn Ewers at QB? Who will win in the redzone? Plus, what a national championship would mean for each CFP coach.
Rundown:
- Weather update (1:00)
- Jeremiah Smith vs Texas' secondary (3:15)
- Will Howard or Quinn Ewers? (9:30)
- Does Texas need to run the ball effectively to win? (14:00)
- Elite interior d-lines meet + redzone significance (18:45)
- Predictions (26:15)
- How Dame almost lost Alabama a national championship (28:45)
- Special teams importance & Texas' winning formula (32:30)
- What's on the line for each remaining CFP coach (36:30)
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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Damien Harris (@DHx34)
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| 0:47.8 | I am David Oven here with Chris Finney. |
| 0:50.6 | What's up guys? |
| 0:51.6 | Still freezing my butt off here in Dallas. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.9 | And our guy, Damian Harris, joining the show. It's going on, folks. Semifinals, four teams left. Let's get into it. Today we're going to look at the Cotton Bowl. We're going to share our predictions, talk about this matchup. Easily the more intriguing game of the two, Ohio State, suddenly morphing back into a juggernaut that |
| 1:12.2 | people thought. And Texas coming off a pretty crazy win over Arizona State in the quarterfinals. |
| 1:19.5 | Chris, you're in Dallas, sort of, north of Dallas. There's talk of snow, winter weather. I hadn't |
| 1:27.1 | really been keeping track of this. |
| 1:28.5 | It seems like it was getting kind of serious. |
| 1:31.3 | What is the situation there? |
| 1:32.7 | And should people be concerned about the possibility of this game moving, maybe? |
| 1:37.2 | I don't know about the game moving, maybe. |
| 1:39.2 | But if you are coming to Dallas for the game, |
| 1:42.0 | keep an eye on your flights. |
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