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00:00As you mentioned the Cotton Bowl tonight in Dallas the winner will face Notre Dame a week from Monday the 20th
00:06In Atlanta for the college football playoff national title, Ohio State. They have looked
00:13Unbelievable in the playoff. They smashed Tennessee. They destroyed Oregon at the Rose Bowl
00:19Everything has turned around since when since that lost to Michigan. So what has changed here is Ryan day
00:26And I think the second thing is there's there's great stories within
00:30individually within this team and
00:32Collectively as a team, but the only way that the story is told about your team is if you win
00:37That's the reality. And so I think they realize that
00:41I think it's a resilient group and I think they know where they are right now
00:47They know the opponent. I think we're focused on the opponent
00:52But ultimately it comes down to our execution and that's really what it is and when we're executing well
00:58Then certainly there's a lot more emotion in the game
01:01That's what it's really what it is. And so we've all really focused on doing our job coaches and players included
01:08Listen, here's the deal. I've never seen anything like
01:12Frankly those two receivers Ibuka and Smith how anyone can even remotely try to guard them is the key to the game
01:19That's it like if you can't stop
01:23literally
01:24Guard or stop those two guys. You're dead. I mean this guy this quarterback Howard. It's not like
01:33He has special skills
01:35Okay, this reminds me of playing in the yard nerf football with the kids like it's simple
01:42Oh deep and if you're open, I'm gonna get it to you. It's simple. He sees these guys
01:48Bust a move and get that step and he just throws the ball and they catch it. It's simple
01:55I don't think he has a hard job at all
01:58The guy's got an arm and he knows he just has to lead him once they get that step. It's over
02:04I think Ohio State has the best receivers I've ever seen in college football
02:08And I mean, I think Texas's biggest problem tonight is those two guys and that running backs a problem
02:15And I think Howard has become a problem because that line is so good at protecting him
02:20He just sits there and waits until he knows he can look one two three. He can look at all three
02:26Spots on the field from the middle to the sides and whoever's got that step. It's over
02:31He just lets it fly and then they run right underneath it and catch it you saw what they did to Oregon
02:37It was embarrassing
02:39Like they won the game because of those receivers Mike
02:44They won the game because of the receivers and I think same thing really both games
02:49I thought even in the Tennessee game at home in Columbus, you know, those guys went off
02:54Against the Vols and that's what that is. What has been the change?
02:59Texas maybe has the defensive backs that can be up to the challenge
03:05Hopefully tonight down there in Dallas here Steve Sarkisian. Of course, we always know the coaches. They don't notice spreads right Scotty
03:12They got no idea
03:14They never know the spreads well Sark knows them
03:17He said even the day after this matchup came out he goes we're big underdogs to this team. There's just no doubt about it
03:24He spoke about that again yesterday at the press conference
03:27I I think a lot of times, you know in this format now, we're kind of in this NFL format model
03:34It's not always about who was the best team for 12 games
03:37It's who's playing the best football this time of the year and I think we could all agree
03:41What coach day's done their team, you know them coming out of that Michigan game and what they've been able to do
03:46since the playoffs have started has been tremendous and that's a credit to coach day and his staff of
03:52Regalvanizing that roster and getting them going and I could probably pull everybody in this room and you probably all agree
03:58They're the favorite to win the game and that's okay, but that's football that sport. That's why we have to do it
04:03We we do so I don't I don't not gonna back off of what I said
04:07The reality is the reality now we have to go perform
04:09That's our responsibility as a football team to go perform
04:13But they've earned that right because of the way they've played here the past couple weeks
04:17Mike the key for me in this football game is frankly time of possession
04:22Texas has to have the football
04:24They cannot let this team onto the field and throw the ball all over the place and score touchdowns
04:30because no one can guard Smith and
04:33Because so many people worry about Smith this this Abuka guys about to break the Ohio State all-time record tonight for being the greatest receiver
04:41ever
04:42That guy's not the greatest receiver ever at Ohio State, even if he breaks it and everybody knows it
04:47You know why he has such gigantic numbers. It's because the other kids so good that no one guards him
04:54No, no one covers him because you have to worry about this other guys
04:58So bad the safety the corners the entire defense has to worry about Smith and it leaves this other guy
05:04It's like it's like he's on a freedom path
05:08The guy's got it is he got his own night the whole side of the fields all to himself
05:13so
05:14Look, and he's gonna get drafted
05:16He's gonna get drafted high too
05:18And I think people are gonna be in for a rude awakening when they see that he's not open in the NFL
05:22Like he's opening Columbus