Buckeyes, Longhorns official Cotton Bowl depth chart
ARLINGTON, Texas — Ohio State and Texas both released their ‘depth charts’ for the Cotton Bowl semifinal as part of the College Football Playoff.
The Longhorns released their official two-deep, while the Buckeyes just provided the starters for Friday’s game, which will send the winner to the national title game.
Here’s what the Ohio State depth chart, which only lists first-team starters, showed on the flip card in the AT&T Stadium press box:
Ohio State depth chart
Offense
Quarterback Will Howard
Running back TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins
Wide Receivers Carnell Tate, Jeremiah Smith and Emeka Egbuka
Tight end Gee Scott Jr.
Left tackle Donovan Jackson
Left guard Austin Siereveld
Center Carson Hinzman
Right guard Tegra Tshabola
Right tackle Josh Fryar
Defense
Defensive ends J.T. Tuimoloau and Jack Sawyer
Defensive tackles Ty Hamilton and Tyleik Williams
Linebackers Cody Simon and Sonny Styles
Cornerbacks Davison Igbinosun, Denzel Burke and Jordan Hancock
Safeties Lathan Ransom and Caleb Downs
Specialists
LS John Ferlmann
K Jayden Fielding
P Joe McGuire
KR TreVeyon Henderson and Brandon Inniss
PR Brandon Inniss
Buckeyes won’t be releasing availability report
Ohio State hasn’t been required to put out a Big Ten availability report in the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes did, however, release one for the first round against Tennessee and quarterfinal Rose Bowl against Oregon.
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They won’t be releasing one for the Cotton Bowl semifinal against Texas.
A Big Ten spokesperson telling Blue-White Illustrated earlier this week that Penn State wouldn’t have to submit one for the Orange Bowl semifinal against Notre Dame, a game the Nittany Lions lost to the Fighting Irish on Thursday night.
The Buckeyes were required to release one by the conference two hours before kickoff during the regular season, per Big Ten rules. After submitting one for publication before its first round matchup with Tennessee and again against Oregon in the Rose Bowl, the Buckeyes will opt out of an availability report for this semifinal vs. the Longhorns.
Both Penn State and Ohio State took the liberty of not releasing one for the semifinal matchups.
Ohio State had a clean bill of health for the Rose Bowl — and it destroyed Oregon in the Rose Bowl with a 34-0 lead and a 41-21 win in the end.
The Buckeyes, of course, are playing without star center Seth McLaughlin, the Rimington Trophy winner. He tore his achilles in November and hasn’t played in each of the last four games. They’re also playing without star left tackle Josh Simmons, who went down with a torn ACL in the loss to Oregon on Oct. 12.
Other than those two, Ohio State has been healthy for most of the season, especially on the defensive side of the football. So the availability report hasn’t hasn’t been revealing to anyone since the regular season concluded in November.
