Quinn Ewers and Texas will play in the Cotton Bowl. A spot in the College Football Playoff national championship is on the line as the Longhorns take on a red-hot Ohio State team in Arlington as a winter storm bears down on the area.

A five-star phenom in high school, Ewers skipped his senior season at Southlake Carroll and enrolled early at Ohio State. After backing up future Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud as a freshman,