To be blunt, Ohio State playing at Indiana isn’t one of my favorite road trips in the Big Ten.

   First, most OSU-Indiana games aren’t compelling football spectacles.   Second, traffic is a nightmare when a big crowd meets small roads and a traffic plan that usually has to handle a crowd only around half the size of the one that shows up when Ohio State comes to Bloomington.

   My solution to the traffic problem when I go to Bloomington is to arrive five hours before kickoff.  No traffic then.  People who arrived closer to kickoff universally said it was a struggle to get to their lots and that the new traffic pattern that Indiana announced would be in effect wasn’t necessarily being followed by the folks directing traffic.

  Ohio State-Indiana drew 51,500 fans.  Indiana averaged 35,000 for its first two home games and 32,000 for last season’s home games.  So, I guess what Ohio State fans see when they go to Bloomington is something like what Columbus would look like on game day if 150,000 people had tickets for a Buckeyes game.

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