“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come here to play SCHOOL,” former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones once said. That kind of focus and mentality appears to be carried over by the Ohio State football team as they prepare for Friday’s Cotton Bowl Classic.
The Ohio State Buckeyes arrived in Arlington, Texas on Saturday ahead of their top-ten matchup against the Missouri Tigers of the SEC, and their X account shared a collection of photos of players making their way to the introductory press conference. The players can be seen in those photos wearing sweatpants and hoodies, which is a bit surprising given that, according to the team’s X account, they were currently in the middle of a “desert.”
Arlington, Texas, where cacti mark your path and tumbleweed rolls by.
To be fair to the people of Columbus, Ohio, the Chihuahuan Desert does cover a large portion of West Texas, but this isn’t it. Arlington is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, which has a humid subtropical climate.
But that is just semantics. The important thing to remember here is that this gave the college football world a fantastic opportunity to mock Ohio State.
