DeacDaddy
Hoping Against Hope
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Funny that the Big 10 has this current aura of being a dominant football conference and that has led to the current situation.
tOSU has had a solid run with one title in the BCS/CFP era, but after that, what? Michigan and Mich State were both exposed in their one CFP appearance, and the rest of the conference? Yikes. Illinois? Purdue? Rutgers? Maryland? Nebraska? Indiana? Minnesota? It really is mediocre, at best, football. Understand that the Big 10 network generates revenue that the ACCN does not (hard to understand how and why as the Big 10 Network programming is largely unwatchable: rewind of Purdue with Drew Brees and Rutgers v. Penn State in Lax... yawn), but as far as on the field product goes, the Big 10 has been worse than both the ACC and Big 12 in recent years.
Which is why it seems like all of this is ultimately an intermediary step to a megaconference with only major football powers