Ohio State Has Revealed Its Uniforms For Cotton Bowl vs. Texas
01/04/2025 03:42 PM
The Ohio State Buckeyes are back in the College Football Playoff semifinals after demolishing the Oregon Ducks and now head to AT&T Stadium to take on the Texas Longhorns next week. Naturally, the Buckeyes are going to try and dress right for the occasion.
Texas are the designated home team as the higher seed in the College Football Playoff, but have opted to go with their away white uniform for the Cotton Bowl Classic against the Buckeyes. As a result, Ohio State will be sporting their home red uniforms for the game rather than any fancy alternate uniforms.
"Ohio State will wear scarlet in the Cotton Bowl," Dan Hope of Eleven Warriors reported this week. "The Buckeyes will wear their traditional home uniforms despite being the lower seed with Texas choosing to wear its road whites."
Ohio State will wear scarlet in the Cotton Bowl.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) January 4, 2025
The Buckeyes will wear their traditional home uniforms despite being the lower seed with Texas choosing to wear its road whites: https://t.co/3b3HVl8Qvu
The team shared some photos of what they'll be looking like in their team colors at the Cotton Bowl, with one photo showing the Cotton Bowl patch in the corner of the jersey.
But some fans were a bit disappointed to see that the classic "heritage stripes" were absent from the uniform.
Semifinal Glow 📌 pic.twitter.com/zwM3P5fUSG
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) January 4, 2025
Despite some complaints about the lack of stripes, a few users pointed out that the stripes only come out for national championship games - which Ohio State is not currently in.
"We never wearing heritage stripes again ig," one user lamented.
"Dang did we just give up on the heritage stripes or something?" another complained.
"For those asking, the heritage stripes only come out in the National Championship," Craig Henman clarified. "It was announced prior to the playoffs."
The Buckeyes got into the College Football Playoff as the tournament's No. 8 seed after losing to Michigan in the final week of the regular season and missing the Big Ten Championship Game. They easily dispatched visiting Tennessee in the first round of the tournament then headed to Los Angeles to take on the Ducks in the Rose Bowl.
To say that the game was a mismatch might be an understatement. Ohio State scored 34 points before the Ducks finally got on the scoreboard and keep the offense on cruise control in the second half en route to a 41-21 win.
They now take on a Texas team that only barely eked out a win over Big 12 champion Arizona State, and are currently favored by at least a touchdown.
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