Whoever wins the Cotton Bowl on Friday night will almost assuredly be the favorite to win the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 20.
The Los Angeles Rams wrapped up practice at their training complex Friday under blue skies with bruise-colored clouds of wildfire smoke lurking on the horizon. The players and coaches then joined a traveling party of 355 people, six dogs and two cats and headed to the airport, where the Arizona Cardinals had sent two team planes to aid their journey to Phoenix. “We’re going in there for everybody in Los Angeles — everybody affected by the fires, everybody displaced, everybody evacuated,” Rams linebacker Michael Hoecht said.
California has seen deadly blazes over the years – Camp fire decimated Paradise town in 2018 and Tubbs fire burned 36,810 acres in 2017