Everything must be going great in Ohio, given that state Rep. Josh Williams (R-41, Sylvania) recently announced plans to introduce a bill banning flag planting after games.

Williams proposed the O.H.IO. Sportsmanship Act in the wake of the Nov. 30 post-game brawl between bitter rivals Michigan and Ohio State. Several Wolverines attempted to plant a Michigan flag at midfield at Ohio Stadium, an act that touched off a brawl police eventually broke up using pepper spray.

The melee was certainly not a good look for either team, college football as a whole nor the NCAA. The Big Ten Conference fined each school $100,000.

That figured to be the end of the story, right?

As legendary college football analyst and former coach Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast, my friend.”

Williams had other ideas.

“Behavior that incites violent brawls and puts our law enforcement officers in danger has no place on the football field,” he said in announcing the bill.

The collective groan in response could have been Michigan and Ohio State fans grumbling about legislative overreach seeping into the greatest rivalry in sports. It could have been Ohio voters wondering why one of the men they sent to the Statehouse in Columbus felt the most important item on his legislative agenda was this attention- and headline-grabbing bill.

What about gun violence and ensuring our kids are safe when we send them to school?

What about the homeless in search of a warm place to stay and a hot meal during another Ohio winter?

What about the citizens of East Palestine, who were exposed to dangerous chemicals and still really can’t be sure if they’re safe in their own homes?

What about increasing property taxes that threaten to price older folks out homes they’ve owned outright for years?

What about the spiraling cost of everyday essentials?

The heck with all that.

No, by golly, we simply must prevent Ohio State opponents from planting their flags at Ohio Stadium, and if they do, it will be a fifth-degree felony.

Last week, Williams was still defending the O.H.I.O. Sportsmanship Act, but seemed resigned to the fact that it has no chance of becoming law. He told the Columbus Dispatch the bill was introduced to get the NCAA’s attention — as if a bloody brawl that was only broken up after police deployed pepper spray went unnoticed.

“I introduced it as the very end of the General Assembly in lame duck. I knew it wouldn’t move,” Williams told the newspaper. “It’s not even going to get a hearing. It was intended to be a shot across the bow at the NCAA, the Big Ten that they need to take tougher steps, or eventually the legislature will have to step in if this continues.”

The point is that state legislators in Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere were not voted into office to regulate college football.

There is no shortage of problems that Ohio’s representatives and senators can and should address while they’re in Columbus.

Opponents planting flags at the 50-yard line at the Horseshoe is not one of those pressing needs.