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MAC football decision puts Big Ten on the clock. What is it waiting for?

Detroit Free Press sports intern George Stoia asked the players at MAC media day in Detroit if they wanted a piece of the defending champion Alabama. Detroit Free Press

The Mid-American Conference canceled its football season. For a moment, Saturday afternoon, when a report broke that Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren favored a spring football season and that league presidents were meeting, it looked like that conference would be next.

It didn’t happen.

So, what is the Big Ten waiting for?

Besides a miracle? More time.

Time to save face, to make it look like the member schools have exhausted every possibility — and every angle — of how to hold a season this fall.