As I’m writing this column, I am sitting here watching a rather lackluster slate of early window games on the final Saturday before the Ohio State Buckeyes join the college football fray on Oct. 24. And as we slowly and painfully inch towards it finally being a Buckeye game week, I am left feeling a little bit sad about all of the aspects of normal game days that won’t be happening in Columbus this season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
From the camaraderie amongst tailgaters to the electricity in the student section to the campus-area businesses losing a key portion of their income to parents taking young ones to their first OSU games, there will be a lot of things that normally make Ohio State games so special that will be missing during this oddest of years.