An Ohio representative introduced legislation making it a felony to plant a flag at the center of the field at OSU's stadium on gameday.
www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/...
This was on 2024-12-10, in response to Michigan's flag planting after beating OSU. The bill died in committee.
#rivalry
I really want to believe this is true.
This wasn't technically our first rivalry research presentation (that was in 2009, because we're old as), but it was after #NASSM 2014 (Pittsburgh) that things really took off. (2/2)
Network map of rivalries in FBS football, where the nodes are teams and the thickness of the lines between them vary based on rivalry strength within the dyad. Nodes are placed based on geographic coordinates, so the network looks like the United States.
As our first post here, here's an image from our first presentation on college football rivalries (from 2014). It's from a social network analysis, where nodes are teams and the thickness of the lines between them vary based on rivalry strength within the dyad. (1/2)