Big Ten power Ohio State plays rising SEC team Missouri in 88th Cotton Bowl
By The Associated Press
Ohio State will play Missouri is the 88th Cotton Bowl on Dec. 30. The 11-1 Buckeyes are in a New Year’s Six bowl game for the 11th season in a row, going back to the last Orange Bowl before the four-team playoff began the 2014 season. They were undefeated until losing their regular-season finale to Big Ten champion Michigan, the top-ranked team in the final CFP rankings. Missouri of the Southeastern Conference has its first 10-win season since the 2014 season when Ohio State won the first national championship in the four-team playoff era at AT&T Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and the Cotton Bowl.