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,

After landing on campus in the middle of training camp and spending a semester deep on the depth chart in Columbus, Ewers headed back south to become the leader of Steve Sarkisian's rebuilding project with the Longhorns.

Quinn Ewers was only at Ohio State for one semester, but the Texas quarterback enjoyed his time as a Buckeye and has no regrets about it.