Today marks the 15th anniversary of the 2003 Northeast Blackout, when errors made at a power plant in Akron, Ohio triggered a cascade of failures that ultimately brought down the electrical grid for much of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States the Canadian province of Ontario. Over 50 million people were affected by the blackout, which crippled transportation and communication systems just before the evening commute on a sweltering late-summer afternoon. In New York City, hundreds of people were trapped in subway trains or elevators.
“What does this have to do with college football?”, you might ask me, again, despite me never once having a satisfactory answer to that question.