I have a weird fetish when a train wreck sporting event appears on the radar. Remember two years ago when Minnesota and Rutgers were about to match up in possibly the worst Big Ten basketball game ever? Minnesota ruined it from being a combined 0-28 by upsetting Maryland just before this game, but it was still a beautiful disaster of a game. We nearly got two of them as well, as Rutgers beat a suspension-riddled Minnesota in the regular season finale.
Football is not immune to this, either. In Darrell Hazell’s first season a Purdue team that eventually went 1-11 hosted an Illinois team on a 20-game conference losing streak and tickets could be had for as low as 39 cents.