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This issue has the potential to get out of hand wrt to college sports.  More blue states could follow CA's lead and red states could start banning blue states.  Everything is political now.

California's Texas travel ban creates confusion in college sports | The Texas Tribune
California's Texas travel ban creates confusion in college sports | The Texas Tribune

It’s possible, however, that all the worries could be moot. The California attorney general’s office is currently considering issuing its formal legal opinion about whether the ban applies to the coaches in the University of California and California State University systems. A spokesperson for the office said they plan “to provide guidance on this general issue soon.”


My guess, it won't apply to athletics.

Gameday in Bloomington for Cincinnati-Indiana?

It could actually happen.  That game is scheduled for Saturday, September 18.  Here are both teams' schedules prior to that:
Cincy:

• vs Miami, OH on 9/4
• vs MurrayST on 9/11

The Bearcats should obviously be undefeated heading into Bloomington.  

Indiana:

• @ Iowa on 9/4
• vs Idaho on 9/11

The Hoosiers obviously have a tougher set with Iowa in Kinnick but even at 1-1 they would likely still be ranked.  

Just glancing through the schedule for that date the games that jump out at me as potential contenders for Gameday are:

• MSU @ Miami, FL - 
• VaTech @ WVU - 
• UNL @ OU - 
• Minnesota @ Colorado - 
• Purdue @ Notre Dame  - 
• Bama @ Florida - 
• UVA @ UNC

The likeliest candidate is obviously Bama @ Florida.  Bama has Miami, FL and Mercer before that while Florida has two directional Florida schools (FAU, USF).  


I think the monkey-wrench that makes Gameday in Bloomington for UC@UI unlikely is Miami, FL.  If the Canes manage to knock off the Tide in their opener then that MSU@Miami game becomes HUGE and probably gets gameday so long as MSU wins their first two (@NU, vs YSU).  OTOH, if the Tide win then the Tide and Gators will most likely both be undefeated and top-10 heading into their meeting in the Swamp.  

One thing that could help UC@UI is that Cincinnati and Indiana have a LOT less Gameday appearances than Bama, Florida, Miami, and MSU:

• Bama:  50 appearances, 16 times hosting, 33-17, last hosted 11/28/2020 when they beat Auburn 42-13
• Florida:  41 appearances, 13 times hosting, 26-15, last hosted 10/5/2019 when they beat Auburn 24-13
• Miami, FL:  24 appearances, 8 times hosting, 15-9, lost hosted 9/26/2020 when they beat FSU 52-10
• MSU:  14 appearances, 8 times hosting, 8-6, last hosted 9/12/2015 when they beat Oregon 31-28
• Indiana:  1 appearance as host, 0-1, last hosted 8/31/2017 when they lost to tOSU 49-21
• Cincinnati:  1 appearance, never hosted, 0-1.  

They may decide that it makes more sense to give IU and UC their second Gameday appearances rather than giving Bama/UF/Miami/MSU their 51st, 42nd, 25th, or 15th.  Additionally, those other four have a better chance of getting gameday later in the season than IU/UC.  

I understand the Horns have been down and changing coaches, but didn't know they were in the Husker's level of trouble

I almost feel bad for them

Ha!

Nobody's buying it.

B1G Championship race:

• Michigan will be aiming for their 43rd league title and first since 2004
• Ohio State will be aiming for their 40th league title and fifth consecutive
• Minnesota will be aiming for their 19th league title and first since 1967
• Illinois will be aiming for their 16th league title and first since 2001
• Wisconsin will be aiming for their 15th league title (would tie Illinois for 4th most) and first since 2012
• Iowa will be aiming for their 12th league title and first since 2004
• Michigan State will be aiming for their 10th league title and first since 2015.  To be fair to the Spartans, their first league title was in 1953 and since then their nine titles puts them in third place behind only tOSU (31) and Michigan (22). 
• Northwestern will be aiming for their 9th league title (would tie MSU for 7th most) and first since 2000
• Purdue will be aiming for their 9th league title (would tie MSU for 7th most) and first since 2000
• Penn State will be aiming for their 5th league title and first since 2016.  To be fair to the Nittany Lions, their first league title was in 1994 and since then their four titles puts them in fourth place behind only tOSU (13), Michigan, and Wisconsin (5 each). 
• Indiana will be aiming for their 3rd league title and first since 1967. 
• Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers will be aiming for their first league title in this league although each of them have previous titles in previous leagues. 

Divisional titles:

• Ohio State will be aiming for their 10th divisional title and 10th consecutive divisional title (two in the old Leaders and all seven years of the B1G-E) along with their fifth consecutive B1GCG appearance. 
• Wisconsin will be aiming for their 6th divisional title and first since 2019 along with their 7th B1GCG appearance*. 
• Michigan State will be aiming for their 4th divisional title and first since 2015 (two in the old Legends and one in the B1G-E) along with their fourth B1GCG appearance. 
• Northwestern will be aiming for their 3rd divisional title and second consecutive along with their 3rd B1GCG appearance. 
• Penn State will be aiming for their 3rd divisional title and first since 2016 along with their second B1GCG appearance. 
• Iowa will be aiming for their 2nd divisional title and first since 2015 along with their second B1GCG appearance. 
• Nebraska will be aiming for their 2nd divisional title and first since 2012 (Legends) along with their second B1GCG appearance. 
• Minnesota will be aiming for their 2nd divisional title and first since 2019 along with their first B1GCG appearance. 
• Michigan will be aiming for their 2nd divisional title and first since 2018 along with their first B1GCG appearance. 
• Purdue, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Rutgers will be aiming for their first divisional title and first B1GCG appearance. 

*Wisconsin has more B1GCG appearances (6) than divisional titles (5) because they have never lost a tie and because back in 2012 they finished third in the old Legends division but went to the B1GCG anyway because first place tOSU (tattoo scandal) and second place PSU (Sandusky scandal) were both ineligible for post-season play.  The official position of the conference is that Ohio State won the Legends Division that year. 

FWIW:
Michigan's three title lead (42-39 over tOSU) hasn't been that small since just before they won it in 1969.  Prior to their 1969 title (shared with tOSU) they led Minnesota 21-18.  Michigan's lead hasn't been less than three since just before they won it in 1949.  Prior to their 1949 title (shared with tOSU) they led Minnesota 18-16.  Back then Illinois was in third place with nine and tOSU was in fourth place with eight. 

Michigan's largest-ever league title lead was after they won the 2004 title (their 42nd and most recent) and before Ohio State won the 2005 title.  During that time Michigan's lead was 13, 42-29 over tOSU.  Then Ohio State won five straight (2005-2009) to close within eight (42-34) and Ohio State won five more after that (2014 and 2017-2020) to close within three (42-39). 

One final thing that I want to see happen this season:
Ohio State leads Michigan over any current time-frame 1908-present or shorter.  The Buckeyes and Wolverines are tied since the 1907 game (51-51-5) and Michigan leads over current timeframes of 1906-present and longer.  Only one living American has been alive long enough that Michigan has a winning record against Ohio State in their lifetime.  Thelma Sutcliffe was born on October 1, 1906 and when she was just short of three weeks old the Wolverines beat the Buckeyes 6-0 in Columbus.  In her 114+ years on earth the Wolverines have beaten the Buckeyes 52 times, the Buckeyes have beaten the Wolverines 51 times, and there have been five ties. 

There are about 330 Million living Americans.  Here is how the Ohio State/Michigan series breaks down in each of their lifetimes:

• In Thelma Sutcliffe's lifetime the Wolverines have an advantage of 52-51-5. 
• In the lifetime of Maude Harris (born August 15, 1907) the Buckeyes and Wolverines are tied at 51-51-5
• In the lifetimes of all the toddlers (including my daughter) born since the last game on November 30, 2019 the two teams are tied 0-0. 
• In the lifetimes of all Americans born between Maude Harris and the most recent game (2019) the Buckeyes have an advantage of between one and 14* games depending on when they were born. 

*The 14 game lead is 16-2 for 2001-present.  Note, only 18 games in 20 years because one game was vacated and one game was not played due to COVID. 

Frost has always had the talent according to recruiting rankings, it's about the culture and discipline and execution

season 4, it's time to show up

Northwestern can't maintain consistency, though.  For every diamond, they lay a turd (season-wise).