COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ninety minutes before kickoff Saturday, the theme from "Welcome Back Kotter" blared from the Ohio Stadium loudspeakers.
Welcome back, Big Ten football.
"Normally, you see tailgaters as you're driving up to the stadium, but obviously now there's no one," said Mariesha Gibson, a native of Cincinnati who now lives and works in Columbus. "Just pulling up to the stadium was weird. Very weird."
Gibson headed off to her job as a BTN production manager. That part of her Saturday felt normal enough. But the coronavirus has impacted the look and feel of game days all over the nation.