I am officially on record as thinking alternate uniforms are cool and good. In 2023, “Ohio State football players wearing something different for a game is neat” isn’t exactly a bold take. The Buckeyes have worn alternate duds dozens of times (depending on how you define “alternate”, I guess), and by now it is pretty well established that Ohio State will don something other than their usual scarlet and gray at least once per season. This has been the prerogative for both Nike and OSU going back to at least 2009, one of the first notable instances of an “alternate” uniform, in the modern sense, being worn by the Buckeyes. That particular jersey was an homage to the 1954 national championship-winning team, and when I used dark magic to peer back in time to see how the Eleven Warriors commentariat reacted to the new threads, I was pleasantly surprised that the…
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