College football's newfound parity has been a major talking point through the 2024 season. For a multitude of perfectly sensible reasons, the good teams aren't as good at the power conference level, and some of the bad teams aren't as bad.

Things really don't look much different now that expanded 12-team College Football Playoff is down to four teams remaining.

That pair, and others like it, became part of notable trend in the 2024-25 bowl season: 21 of the 30 non-Playoff bowls that aired on an ESPN network through Jan. 2 saw year-over-year viewership increases, the majority of them by 20 percent or more.

Ohio State has sold 12,000 tickets for the Cotton Bowl, one of the semifinals for the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes face Texas on Friday.

Texas Longhorns will play the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Cotton Bowl, the College Football semifinal. Here is the latest update for tickets.

Friday’s College Football Playoff game between Texas and Ohio State remains on schedule despite a wintry forecast for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With a mix of rain, snow and sleet forecast for Thursday,

No. 8 Ohio State will play No. 5 Texas in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. Here are bracket predictions for the matchup.

Now, Ryan Day and the Bucks prepare for Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Another tough task as Ohio State must play the Longhorns in their own backyard with Dallas being just a short three-hour drive from Austin.

Will the Texas football season end at the hands of Ohio State in the CFP? Here's the case for a Buckeyes win in the Cotton Bowl.