College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic ·
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
No. 6 Ohio State beat No. 4 Texas by 14 points, the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic.
It was played at a neutral site: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX.
How the game turned
Q4 7:02 Ohio State 21, Texas 14
Ohio State 89% to win
Judkins 1-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 21-14
Big moments
- 1Q1 7:24 · Ohio State 7, Texas 0Ohio State's win chance rose from 73% to 80%.Judkins 9-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 0:13 · Ohio State 14, Texas 7Ohio State's win chance rose from 72% to 78%.Howard 75-yd TD pass to Henderson, Ohio State goes ahead 14-7
- 3Q3 3:12 · Ohio State 14, Texas 14Ohio State's win chance fell from 82% to 63%.Ewers 26-yd TD pass to Blue, ties it 14-14
- 4Q4 7:02 · Ohio State 21, Texas 14Ohio State's win chance rose from 58% to 89%.Judkins 1-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 21-14
Ohio State's lowest chance to win was 40 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
The biggest swing
With 7:02 left in the 4th quarter, Ohio State's chance to win went from 58 percent to 89 percent when Ohio State scored a touchdown.
The score went from Ohio State 14, Texas 14 to Ohio State 21, Texas 14.
The play: Judkins 1-yd TD run, Ohio State goes ahead 21-14.
What happened next
Texas finished the 2024 season 13-3, No. 4 in the last AP poll before the bowls.
- 10 days later
Texas's first game of the 2025 season: L 7-14 at Ohio State, Aug 30, 2025
about 8 months laterThe teams' next meeting after Jan 10, 2025: Ohio State 14, Texas 7, Aug 30, 2025
about 8 months later
Related pages
Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.