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Buy a beer inside the biggest Michigan college football games this fall? No promises yet.

Crack open a beer inside the Big House at the home opener this fall?

Maybe, maybe not.

Michigan's biggest campuses are keeping their game-time drinking decisions close to the vest on the day Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill allowing alcohol sales at the state's 15 public universities' football, hockey and basketball games. The move potentially opens the door for legal, in-stadium drinking by tens of thousands of already enthusiastic fans.

Senate Bill 247, introduced by state Sen. Sean McCann, D-Kalamazoo, allows for the licensing of all Michigan public universities to sell alcohol at select games, with sales being permitted an hour before kickoff, tipoff and puck drop, and ending with the game.