I didn’t get the chance to follow along with the BTN’s campus tour to Iowa City last night but came across the following tweet:
BTN Bus Tour #Hawkeyes Iowa first West team we've seen - 3 things that significantly impact West race- LOS on both sides,QB play, crossovers
— Gerry DiNardo (@gerrydinardo) August 14, 2017
Throughout the Twitter-sphere, it seemed like the last bit seemed to catch hold: crossovers. Marc Morehouse and Jon Miller lent credence to the idea but a look through time shows that significantly more often than not, beating the teams in your division is what matters and crossovers have little actual bearing on the outcome of the season.