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Casamigos Tequila is brought to you by those who drink it. We come to you on this Friday night, on the Mike Francesa channel, on the BetRivers Network, Network on YouTube after Ohio States win over Texas that sets up an Ohio State indie national championship game a week from Monday for the whole thing,

Notre Dame winning their way in last night with the three-point win over Penn State.

And then in a game that was a strange game, in a lot of ways, a strange game.

Ohio State with the sack and the strip and the return for the touchdown broke the game open i mean texas is sitting

there with four minutes left with a first and goal on the one they don't score to tie the game

and then next thing you know they get the turnover and the score uh for the 2814 win for ohio

state now i picked ohio state but i did not think Ohio State played particularly well this

evening.

Their defense did a good job when it had to.

This was a strange game on a lot of levels.

Number one, you knew going in that Texas was going to have to find a way to take away

Jeremiah Smith.

They did.

Also, there's a feeling, and I don't know because I did not see video, definitive video of this in the first quarter.

There's been a report throughout the game that he was injured early in the game on a collision.

I do not know because I did not show me video evidence of that collision.

That was a report.

Now, he only caught one ball for three yards in the statistics.

He did catch another short pass that was negated by a holding call.

But they took him away, made them go elsewhere.

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