COLUMBUS, Ohio — Stanley Jackson was a high school quarterback from Paterson, New Jersey, when he visited Ohio State University in the early 1990s. Jackson walked through the gate of Ohio Stadium and onto the hallowed grounds where the Buckeyes play football. “I stepped foot in the stadium,” Jackson recalled, “I said, ‘OK, I get to play in this building? Where do I sign?’” Ohio Stadium has that effect. Saturday night in the Ohio capital, the Oklahoma Sooners play in the famed Horseshoe for just the second time ever. Forty years after the most famous field goal in OU history, Uwe von Schamann’s 41-yarder that beat Ohio State 29-28, the Sooners return to one of the most revered venues in American sport. College football is tradition-rich. Its pageantry celebrated. Its rites cherished. But its stadiums aren’t always exalted. Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium? OU’s Owen Field? Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium? Loved by their…
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