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Big Ten football misery index: 9 OTs shift the balance of the East

You were sooooo close, NCAA, to having a perfect 2021. You got so much right — or at least not wrong.

It took a while, but eventually you checked off letting players get paid for their name, image and likeness (literally, checks were cut, especially for so many Michigan State football and basketball players), letting players transfer once without making up a reason and letting everyone have an extra year of eligibility to make up for 2020-21’s chaos.

(Seriously, the less said about last season the better, and that’s coming from someone whose job it is to judge misery on a weekly basis.