A Modest Proposal

The Big Ten Football Title Game:

Shouldn't be played in the Lucas Oil Field Dome or wherever the hell the Colts play. It shouldn't even be played in Soldier Field... brace yourselves kids, because I'm going to make a bold suggestion:

Rotate it around!

Seriously. I think that would rock- every school would get a chance to showcase it's campus and it's stadium and the towns would get a possible economic boost from the title game now and again and it would show a national television audience the depth and variety of the Big 10 Conference. We wouldn't be playing in a prepackaged, corporate title game- we'd be doing something unique and interesting.

There are some obvious rules you'd have to consider. If your school is set to host and you wind up in the title game, then you get bumped to the next school down. There are some concerns about travel costs if the title game is someplace like Nebraska or Penn State at the far end, geographically speaking of the Big Ten Conference but if fans are willing to go the distance for the regular season, I don't see why they wouldn't for a Big Ten Title Game.

It's a complicated notion, I have to admit- but it's an interesting one.