Ever since I started college at the University of Illinois in 2015, the eve of the opening football game is better than the night before Christmas (or Hannukah, in my case).
It’s a night where I want to go to bed as early as possible so tomorrow can already come. There won’t be any gifts under the tree, but there will be a game with the Illini and some other team, preferably one from the MAC (unless it’s Western Michigan).
So when I realized that Saturday’s Week Zero kickoff against Nebraska wasn’t starting until 12:20 p.m., I got frustrated!