Sure, there was minor disappointment in the Big Ten when the conference failed to land a second team in the College Football Playoff. But Jim Delany and the rest of league bigwigs should be skipping and dancing today.
Four Big Ten schools are playing in traditional New Year’s Day games, including Ohio State in the CFP semifinals.
If the playoffs were at the proper eight teams (it is coming soon), the Big Ten would have filled half the field. Amazing.
We used to talk about the dominance of the SEC. Or the competitive balance in the Big 12 and Pac-12.