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NEW YORK – If Jim Delany’s flip-flop seems transparently self-serving, it is – and he’s OK with it.
The Big Ten’s commissioner was for conference champions only in the College Football Playoff before he was, well, not exactly against it, but OK with the concept of allowing a non-champion into the four-team field. That’s almost certainly because while Big Ten champion Penn State got left out, Ohio State got in, anyway. And the Buckeyes look an awful lot like a team that could win the whole thing.
“I argued for a different construct,” Delany said last week.