KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cincinnati will be playing a home game in Nebraska’s own backyard Thursday night. The crowd, most of which will be making a relatively short drive south to Arrowhead Stadium, will be almost entirely behind the Huskers. So, why did the Bearcats agree to play in Kansas City, Missouri?

Money, for one thing, and that's no small thing in an era of NIL deals and revenue-sharing in college athletics. The game between the Big 12 and Big Ten schools originally was slated for Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, about a two-hour drive from Cincinnati and hundreds of miles away from Lincoln, Nebraska. But it was put on the back-burner by the pandemic, and when it was resurrected, the landscape had shifted as money began to funnel straight to college athletes. On the periphery o

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