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Watch: Ohio State linebacker Jack Sawyer destroys a camera after hugging Ryan Day following his fumble returned for a touchdown.

Ohio State is off to the College Football Playoff National Championship game to face Notre Dame. But it wasn’t easy. Clinging to a seven-point lead, the defense was asked again to make yet another stop. Texas drove down the field fairly quickly and then two pass interference calls put the Longhorns on the one-yard line with a first and goal.

Sawyer undoubtedly had the biggest play of the game when he sealed Ohio State's 28-14 victory over the Texas Longhorns. After stripping the ball away from Texas QB Quinn Ewers during a 4th-and-goal situation with less than three minutes remaining, the star defensive end proceeded to complete the play with an 83-yard fumble return.

Throughout the course of the game, both teams struggled to move the football offensively. Both teams came to play on the defensive side of the football. Sawyer ending the game wit

Ohio State's last win over Michigan was in 2019 when Sawyer was in high school. However, this season's loss to the rival may have hurt the most for the senior defender, as it was on the Buckeyes' senior day. Plus, the game ended in a brawl between both teams after a Michigan flag was planted in the middle of Ohio State's field.

Jack Sawyer's 83-yard scoop-and-score touchdown after stripping Quinn Ewers on fourth-and-goal with 2:13 left sealed the Buckeyes' 28-14 win over the Longhorns

The Buckeyes defense stopped Texas near the goal line with less than three minutes to go as Jack Sawyer’s fumble return with 2:13 remaining gave the Buckeyes a 28-14 win over the Longhorns in Friday night’s Cotton Bowl. Sawyer stripped Quinn Ewers on fourth down and recovered the ball himself before officially running it 83 yards for the score.

QB Riley Leonard and the Fighting Irish have faced a fierce gauntlet of defenses on their path to the title game, but the nation’s top-ranked unit awaits them on Monday.

And now here they were, physically closer than ever but emotionally separated by jerseys and traumas and the chance for redemption that only one of them would be able to cash in. From NFL plays to college sports scores,

The inaugural 12-team playoff is now down to the final two combatants. Ohio State and Notre Dame will battle it out for all the marbles on Monday, January 20th in Atlanta.