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The B1G Conspiracy to Grant Northwestern Home Field Advantage (Please give me clicks. I'm desperate)

Northwestern is the only Big Ten team to gain an advantage by playing without fans. It's a B1G conspiracy I tells ya!  If the Pat Forde's, Dan Wolken's, and Nicole Auerbach's can crank out dangerous, desperate, and unhinged click-bait conspiracy, SO CAN I! For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. It's a law of the universe or something and as a sports journalist I like to reference laws, theories, and principles I hardly understand. Yes, so back to the barely coherent point at hand. Northwestern. By not allowing fans, the Big Ten is showing blatant favoritism for its hometown team, the church "choir boys" of the conference. It's a well-known fact that Northwestern never plays in front of a home crowd. They either play in front of a hostile road crowd or a smaller hostile road crowd in their own stadium. Whenever Nebraska, and many other Big Ten teams, play at Northwestern, the home team has to go to a silent count.  It's very clear