Lost amid all the postgame hoopla and drowned out by the splashing sound of so many Cincinnati tears is the pregame concern that the Crosstown Shootout just isn’t the game it used to be. Scheduling this year figured to be an issue, with college football having a bunch of games that contribute nothing to the national championship picture the same day. (Sidenote: Adding whimpering OSU fans to raging UC ones has made social media almost unbearable). A local publication even had the temerity to post that the Shootout wasn’t even the marquee event of the weekend anymore.
Competitively, the Shootout isn’t what it was.
