COLUMBUS, Ohio — The idea of Ohio State football finally playing Alabama football on each other’s home campuses is such a joyous realization that it’s hard to believe it’s finally happening. Can football fun really be this easy? It may have taken a full 123 years of waiting before it finally happens, but who won’t like Alabama in Columbus in 2027, and Ohio State in Tuscaloosa in 2028 for the first … time … ever? It took nine months of negotiating for Ohio State deputy athletic director Diana Sabau to lock it down, but the word went out Thursday, complete with an unusually hefty $3 million buyout to ensure neither side backs out. It’s really happening for three reasons that make so much sense, you want to hop in a time machine and tell Bear Bryant and Woody Hayes to schedule each other sometime in the 20 years before the…
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