Or, the visitor’s locker room at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Our Buckeyes will be spending Saturday looking at this pink nightmare before they play the Hawkeyes Saturday night.

Yuck.

I imagine this would have been quite a shock the first time any visiting team walked through that door. I’m not sure it would elicit the same shock these days; I also have to wonder if the pink ever really had the kind of calming effect Hayden Fry hoped it would.

But then, you do have to wonder what happened to Ohio State when they played out there last, in 2004. In case y’all forgot, we slept through much of the game and got waxed, 33-7.

I had actually driven my mother and Juan’s mother — in Pittsburgh for a girl’s weekend — out to Punxsutawney that morning, and we were still about 15 minutes from returning home when we dialed in the start of the game on the radio. I know we were down by the time we got home; I know the game was essentially over in fairly short order.

We pretty much got our revenge last year, when we thumped the Hawks 31-6 in Columbus. We don’t have that motivation going for us. We’re facing another theme night — I think all gold shirts this time — and another “biggest game in the history of our school” kind of atmosphere.

For the first time this season, our defense will have to stand up to an experienced quarterback.

We’re coming off our worst offensive performance of the season. And we’ve declined offensively over the last two weeks.

I think we’re 0-3 in our last three conference road night games.

Wow. That doesn’t sound too good.

My point is this: Saturday’s game is easily the toughest of the month. Not Texas, Iowa. And it could work out to be the toughest game of the season. This is one to take very seriously.

Even if you have to prepare inside a pink locker room.