COLUMBUS, Ohio – It didn’t feel much like late October in Columbus.
The sun shone brightly on “The Shoe,” packed with Buckeye fans clad in red, matching the color-changing leaves on the trees surrounding the stadium.
Halloween weekend in the Big Ten is supposed to be gray and windy. Throw in a little rain or even snow, if you’re lucky. But Saturday, it was an unusual 79 degrees at kickoff.
And, as Northwestern (4-4, 3-2 Big Ten) battled No. 6 Ohio State (7-1, 4-41) into the evening, the last weekend in October began to feel even more foreign.