The game was within Texas' reach with about half of the fourth quarter left against Ohio State. Or, at least, tying it was within reach — until it suddenly wasn't. Trailing the Buckeyes by a touchdown in Friday's College Football Playoff semifinal game at

Texas was just one yard from tying the Cotton Bowl but a failed sweep and subsequent sack and fumble clinched the game for Ohio State.

After embarrassing Tennessee and Oregon, Ohio State found itself in a dogfight with Texas in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl. A game the Buckeyes would ultimately win with late heroics. It will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest games ever played in Ohio State football history.