INDIANAPOLIS —
Lincoln Riley strode confidently into the cavernous confines of a new, unfamiliar stadium, one of the new coaches on the block in the Big Ten, surrounded on all sides by the novel and the unfamiliar. Everywhere inside Lucas Oil Stadium were reminders of how much his circumstances had changed since last season. New coaches, new players, new logos, new everything.
It wasn’t just the new conference and all its new trappings, though. The landscape of college athletics was has been upended since USC beat Louisville in the Holiday Bowl
in December.