I just wanted to include a brief few notes about my travel back from the bigten championship game in 2019, as I think that is the most analogous scenario to the potential "home site" Lucas Oil Stadium experience. As you may remember it was a night game. i personally stayed for the whole game and trophy celebrations, then by the time I got to my parking, on the road, suffice it to say it was pretty late. Anyways the trip back to Columbus is pretty much entirely i70 two lane roads the entire two and a half hours. Its dark, boring, and a caravan of traveling buckeye fans. We attempted to stop at a gas station/dennys, only to see like 20 other buckeye fans, maybe two waitresses and a cook so dont recommend stopping on the way back unless u wanna wait an hour (we didnt).

At some point we passed the team busses. Yes, our players probably celebrated for 30 minutes in the locker room, but were probably not back on campus until 2:30am. I think this could be a good or bad thing depending on how you think it affects the next game's performance, but it seems player post game celebrations are significantly lessened when traveling to Indy.

From a fan experience, the longish late drive sucked but Im not one to shell out for a hotel. The long caravan of buckeyes was kinda surreal. That we were big ten champions definitely made the drive a lot more pleasant. It would have truly sucked if we lost that game. Compared to a game down the road at the shoe, id personally take sitting in 3.5 hours of cold weather than driving 5 hours to avoid it.