While the Big Ten (24-team playoff) and the Southeastern Conference (16 teams, no more) apparently are still far apart on the future of major college football, the Indy 500 heads into its 110th running with the traditional 33 drivers seeking reputational immortality.

Much like Bobby Rahal did 40 years ago, as he put Hilliard-based Truesports and terminally ill team owner Jim Trueman on the winner’s stand of the world’s most famous race.

Pataskala-based Dillon Davis talks about all those things, sound from Rahal, his son Graham, who is trying again to gain his first 500 victory, and Pataskala-based Meyer Shank Racing founder Mike Shank, whose three-car team is seeking its second win, including Helio Castroneves, 51, trying to become Indy’s first five-time victor.

Send ‘ em!!