A little more than three years later, the image of Quinn Ewers seems almost apocryphal, if not sacrilegious.
The lifelong fan of the Texas Longhorns is wearing his formerly trademark bleached-blond mullet and the scarlet and gray of the Ohio State Buckeyes on the sideline of a game against the Michigan State Spartans in Columbus.
Less than two weeks later, Ewers entered the NCAA transfer portal after a semester with the Buckeyes. Less than two weeks after that, the No. 1 prospect in the 2021 recruiting class with a perfect rating by 247Sports returned to the Lone Star State, becoming a huge coup for first-year head coach Steve Sarkisian in committing to Texas despite a 5-7 debut on the Forty Acres by Sarkisian.