ARLINGTON, Texas — AT&T Stadium is the site of the Cotton Bowl matchup between the No. 5 Texas Longhorns and the No. 8 Ohio State Buckeyes on Friday in the College Football Playoff semifinals.
And while the Longhorns are the higher seed, the Buckeyes are favored by 5.5 points on FanDuel with kickoff approaching at 6:45 p.m. Central on ESPN. ESPN’s matchup predictor has it closer with Texas given a narrow edge at a 50.5-percent win probability.
One of the central storylines surrounds the fast starts of Ohio State in the playoff — the Buckeyes scored 21 points in the first quarter of the 42-17 first-round win over the Volunteers and on six of the seven first-half possessions of the 41-21 win over No.