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Week 13: The Sound Decisions of Learned Referees

Winter arrived last weekend in Madison. The northern winds swept ice and snow across the Midwest and buffeted the stadium with freezing air and football misery. It is as if Jim Delany, sitting comfortably in his LeaderLegend Big Ten Command Center flipped the switch from "football" to "Big Ten football" all the way up to "Ludicrously Big Ten football" and a torrent of sleet and cold and inability to pass the football like it was 1944 and we needed to send all our forward passes to the front and the referees all flooded into the stadium while the Big Ten Network beamed the debacle to dozens of American homes.