In just a little over three months we’ll have the beginning of a college football season. And after the bizarre 2020 season, we are ever hopeful (fingers crossed) that it will be a real season: 12 regular season games (plus the Big Ten championship game and a couple of playoff games), a band and a halftime show, living people filling the stands, lots of noise. For the 2021 Buckeyes, the season opener is on Thursday, Sept. 2, at Minnesota’s in TCF Bank Stadium.
Although we might be more accustomed to opening at home against Akron or Bowling Green, this will actually be the third opening game against a conference foe in the last decade — last Oct.