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The 2025 Cotton Bowl Classic rematch had the same result.
No. 3 Ohio State handled Arch Manning and defeated the top-ranked Texas Longhorns with a 14-7 victory in Columbus on Saturday.
The Buckeyes defeated the Longhorns, then led by Will Howard and Quinn Ewers, respectively, to advance to last season's national championship, which Ohio State won.
Texas entered Ohio Stadium as the No. 1 team in the nation and did not look like it one bit.
It took a while for both offenses to get going, as the teams turned the ball over on downs on their opening drives. Rising superstar Jeremiah Smith then had two drops for OSU on its next drive, but the Buckeyes were able to find the end zone with about nine minutes left in the first ha