Not long ago, college sports and gambling went together like toothpaste and bread.
Mixing them was a non-starter, with schools fearing the kind of racket that once infiltrated the University of Toledo, where a point-shaving scandal rocked the football and basketball programs in the mid-2000s.
Hell, I’m old enough to remember way back when the NCAA was so wary of any ties to the betting industry that it had a rule against holding its championship events in Las Vegas.
That was 2019.
Fast forward three years, and how much has the landscape changed?
I asked Toledo athletic director Mike O’Brien if he could envision a day when the Glass Bowl has a betting window.