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I do believe that. I'm a Utah State fan. This year we actually played Florida in a neutral venue in Florida. It wasn't a short drive for them but they definitely had substantially more fans.

I think it may just be up to the teams to decide. BYU is displaced from their arena for a week in December. They played UNLV in Salt Lake where the Jazz play. It's about 45 minutes away but it's included in their season tickets, marketed by them and utilizes their officials. This is considered a neutral game by the NCAA. Everything except the location should make it a home game for BYU but it isn't.

We have updated the game to an Away game because the NCAA has it classified as that but this does create some really strange scenarios as we've reviewed the NCAA data. Prior to today, all of the Home/Away/Neutral data came from ESPN and all of that data seemed to make sense. We found 12 situations where our records didn't match up with the NCAA though and reviewed each of them. We found a team that played 3 games in an arena in their home town. 2 were considered neutral, 1 was considered home. No reasoning as to why they were classified that way, just that they were. There were also 3 or 4 situations where the game took place over 120 miles away from either teams arenas yet they were considered home games. There was one scenario where a game took place in an arena within 50 miles of both schools playing. It was listed as a home game for the team that was further away. In my opinion, a home game happens at the home arena of a team or at least within 20 miles of campus. I'm not sure what the NCAA considers a home/away/neutral game though based on the oddities listed above so we're just going with what they have from here on out.

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This has been fixed. We didn't realize that ESPN was switching teams around and the net ranking never got overwritten because they weren't D1. We are now flushing the cache before every import.