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ARLINGTON, Texas — It felt like forever.
The run felt like forever. The jaunt. The trot. Call it what you want. A rumble.
It looked like forever, too. All 260 pounds of Jack Sawyer racing — is that the right word? — down the sideline.
In the stands, his family watched.
Run, Jack. Run. Ruuuun.
The 20, the 30, the 40…
“I think I said 70 times in a row, ‘There’s no way! There’s no way! This isn’t real!’” Jack’s sister, Kyla said, “and then I started crying and I don’t remember the rest of the game.”
On Thursday night, the Orange Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal delivered to us one of the worst unforced, game-securing turnovers in college football history (Penn State quarterback Drew Allar’s pick in the final seconds).
On Friday night, the Cotton Bowl semifinal conjured up one of its own, this time a forced turnover by the big, meaty paws of Ohio State’s star defensive end: a swatting sack-fumble and then a rousing, game-ending scoop-and-score of 83 yards.
Run, Jack. Run.
The 50, the 40…
“I felt like I was in quicksand because I was trying to get into the end zone so fast,” Jack said afterward.
He eventually crossed the goal line, striding into that end zone, into the record books, sending the Buckeyes to the national championship game with a 28-14 win over the Texas Longhorns.
In a stunning turn of events, Sawyer’s scoop-and-score ended what turned out to be a dreadful series of plays for the Longhorns.
Texas, down 21-14 with 3 minutes, 56 seconds left, faced a first-and-goal at the 1-yard line. Steve Sarkisian’s team went backward: a run for no gain; an inexplicable toss play for a 7-yard loss; an incomplete pass; and then, on fourth-and-goal from the 8, Longhorns QB Ewers cocked his arm in an aim toward the end zone, a pass that may have tied the game.
He never fired. Sawyer beat…
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Publish date : 2025-01-11 07:10:00
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