Lets take a trip through time. The year is 2108, we're celebrating the 100th season of football in TCF Bank Stadium, long since renamed "Tim Brewster Stadium". The defending Big Ten champion Gophers open the season with a visit from the defending National Champions, the Kent State Golden Flashes. When some suggested replacing the stadium, angry mobs took to the street, and officials had to barracade themselves in their offices until a statement could be released saying that renovations would take place and the Gophers would be at Tim Brewster stadium for decades more to come.
Fans line up to get the most common ballgame food, sushi and grits. Some are still fans of an obscure food from the old days called a "hot dog", but that's hard to find these days. The new holographic scoreboard is due to be replaced, and drinks are delivered by robots.
The Big Ten Conference is now the a 32 member Big Ten Athletic Association. Officials are looking at reorganization, because the Big Ten West Conference is too top heavy, with Minnesota, Illinois and Northwestern in the same conference, no one else can compete. The Gophers hope to win the INCAA (International Collegeiate Athletic Association Tournament), and play in the championship game at the Sun Bowl, one of the most prestigious locations in all of college football. The game against perennial cellar-dweller Ohio State is expected to be the least attended game of the season.
Some of the fans at TCF like to look back at history, when teams played such primitive offenses such as the Spread. Some things come back into favor, there was a trend to use the Notre Dame Box for a while. And, in the 100th season in the venerable stadium look back to when this stadium was brand new. They wouldn't trade their old beloves stadium for a new one, but they try to imagine how the excitement at being there when history began.
Ok, the scenario is awfully far-fetched. But if we could actually make it to 2108, I imagine that it might be as bizzare as this one is. If we lived in 1910, and were asked to make predictions about 2010, our predictions would probably be off. We likely would have predicted the Ivy League being a major power, for example.