Oddsmakers may have Texas as nearly a one-touchdown underdog going into its Cotton Bowl matchup against Ohio State on Friday, but the Longhorns were feeling at home when they arrived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Wednesday.”Yeah, being in Texas, an out-of-state opponent coming in, it does feel like a home game,” said Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers. “Obviously, (we’ve) got a lot of guys from DFW, so that helps for sure.”Ewers is among the Texas players who from that area, and he has a few memories, good and bad, of playing at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.On the bright side, he led Texas to a Big 12 championship in the building a season ago, throwing for 452 yards and four touchdowns. On the not-so-bright side, he lost a state championship in his final high school game at Southlake Carroll, a powerhouse program in the area.”Two different outcomes of a game. You know, winning is a whole lot nicer, especially a Big 12 championship game,” Ewers said. “But going back to it, I just enjoy playing in this stadium for sure.”His teammates echoed those thoughts. Many were on the Big 12 title team a year ago and/or also competed for state championships in the venue.”It’s a blessing to have another opportunity to be in the stadium, to make the most of it,” said defensive back Jahdae Barron, who was on the Big 12 title team. “We won’t take anything for granted.”–Ohio State wide receiver Emeka Egbuka confirmed the mindset throughout the Buckeyes locker room is that, “We haven’t done anything yet,” despite what has been a successful season by most measures.”I have been here for four years, and I have absolutely no hardware to show for it. That’s really on the forefront of our minds,” Egbuka said. “We’re glad we were able to give Buckeye Nation a couple of good wins, but we are nowhere near done.”Several of his teammates expressed the same sentiment on arrival day. All spoke of how close and tight-knit the team is and the shared pursuit to win the program’s first championship in a decade.”That’s the biggest thing about our team right now — we’re just fighting to get another opportunity to play with each other,” linebacker Cody Simon said. “It could be our last (game), but if we do everything we need to do, we get another one. That’s our biggest motivator right now. We just want to stay together. We don’t want to end this run right now.”