We knew this was going to be a weird Big Ten season, what with the late-October start and empty stadiums; the Wisconsin “crowd” showed even less rhythm than they usually do doing the post-third-quarter playing of House of Pain's "Jump Around."
But an opening weekend with wins by Indiana, Purdue AND Rutgers? That simply hasn’t happened since the Scarlet Knights joined the Big Ten in 2014. (They came close on Oct. 4, 2014; the trio all won, but Indiana’s victory came against North Texas, which will have to wait for its Big Ten invitation until the conference targets the Dallas-by-way-of-Denton, Texas, TV market.