We are still more than a week out from Big Ten football — Northwestern and Nebraska kick off at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 27 in Dublin, Ireland, despite toxic exports clearly being banned under European Union bylaws — and already chaos is reigning.
(There’s also Big Ten football, and we use those terms loosely, that afternoon in Champaign, as the Illini host Wyoming at 4 p.m. in potentially the least color-coordinated matchup — brown and gold vs. blue and orange, please won’t somebody think of the scorched retinas? — in recent Division I history. At least the Cowboys get a trip out of Laramie.