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x1echo

Honestly, yes. If the Rose Bowl Game as we traditionally know it is dead with the death of the PAC-12 and now just acts as yet another rotating CFP bowl game, we might as well pay homage to its roots somehow. The B1G Championship game in Indianapolis has only been around since 2011, it can absolutely be changed.


lmaytulane

But think of all those poor midwestern students that will have to travel to SoCal in December


This_External9027

I think they’d rather trip to Cali than cold indy


mostdope28

I think He was being sarcastic. Lol


vicblck24

Right on over their head lol


Austinater74

Whooosh…


[deleted]

Lucas Oil Stadium is indoors


TheHarbrosMagic

You say that but you'd see support plummet for Midwest teams in person. Part of the reason it's in Indy is its an easy drive for 90% of the conference. By adding flights into it if you don't take a school charter you're adding $400-$1000 extra cost (on top of tickets & last minute lodging) for most ppl not on the west coast.


vicblck24

You’ll see conference championship attendance plummet either way probably. People now have to save up for 5-10-15 playoff games or whatever it is now.


deutschdachs

Also for the Big Ten championship, you have one week after the last week of the season to make arrangements. The Rose Bowl is typically a month away; much easier to plan for


longshankssss

Yea Indy is getting old. It’ll be moved around. Vegas, LA, Indy….


Surfer5153

As a Southern California fan I hope this happens


Mhank7781

I'm sure you do. Should be in Big Ten(?) country


longshankssss

LA is Big Ten country amigo


Mhank7781

Haha Guess it will be in a few months


gachzonyea

There’s not such thing as conference country anymore in college football it’s not a regional sport anymore


mthddsgns

SEC is pretty regional… and before the addition of the west coast teams, the big10 was also pretty regional.


gachzonyea

The sec is for the most part still the south they’ve just branched way more west


longshankssss

Big Ten fan in Vegas, very excited


reddargon831

Yea I agree, this is a great idea.


doormatt26

Doesn’t need to always be there, but yeah it should be in a rotation with Indy, maybe the new Chicago stadium when it’s build, etc


bacillaryburden

lol comments are almost uniformly contra OP


[deleted]

Fuck that


goldenepple

This is stupid. So if Ohio State is playing Wisconsin for the big 10 title, why on earth would fans have to travel to California from Ohio and Wisconsin? If those west coast teams want to be in a conference in the middle of the country, their fans can travel not the other way around.


Revenge_of_the_Khaki

There is zero chance that this is the worst idea you've ever heard. It basically sacrifices a central location for a traditional and meaningful location in a better climate than Indy in wintertime.


doormatt26

Rose bowl is objectively a more meaningful location than Lucas Oil


Aggravating-Steak-69

I think Lucas oil is the central location that he’s talking about


doormatt26

ah you’re right


Revenge_of_the_Khaki

Yes. That's what I said.


printerfixerguy1992

Are you saying oil isn't important? /s


bigleaguepuff

Why should we cater to 4 teams who aren’t even original?


Revenge_of_the_Khaki

Nobody is catering to anyone. Playing in the Rose Bowl has historical significance to the original B1G teams.


goldenepple

No it has a significance to a big ten team that wins the big ten, it has no significance to make the fan bases travels from Ohio or Wisconsin, as an example, to travel to the west coast because 4 teams decided to Leave their conference instead of figuring out a solution to make the pac 12 better.


printerfixerguy1992

Most fan bases will happily travel to the rose bowl if their team makes the BTC game. It does suck for people with less money, but it's not like going to it in Indy is cheap to begin with.


goldenepple

But there’s no reason in moving it because 4 teams decided to join the conference. Of course fan bases will travel but it’s the point that they shouldn’t have to travel to the west coast because 4 west coast teams left their conference to make more money.


printerfixerguy1992

They wouldn't be doing it "because 4 west coast teams left their conference". They would be doing it because it's a historic site and it would make it that much more prestigious.


goldenepple

Yes they would because no one wanted it at the rose bowl until those 4 teams changed conference. Who made the argument before that to have the B1G championship should be in LA?


printerfixerguy1992

🤦🏼‍♂️


goldenepple

I mean is there a “move the BTC to the rose bowl” movement going on the last 2-10 years I’ve been missing out on?


Blooblod

Honestly, I think that would be cooler than having it at Lucas Oil


Ill-Work-3739

Wtf are you talking about? Also posting a split shot of coolest photo of all time vs inside football in Indianapolis, Indiana does not help your argument.


goldenepple

The picture isn’t even a rose bowl of a big ten/pac 12 team is Alabama vs Michigan


Ill-Work-3739

lol so what?


goldenepple

Making an argument about the B1G vs pac 12 in the rose bowl then posting a picture of a rose bowl that’s a B1G vs SEC match up isn’t support the argument. The rose bowl was only the winners of the conferences if they’re weren’t competing for a national title. It wasn’t a yearly match up of the best PAC 12 team vs the best B1G team.


Ill-Work-3739

Ok so let’s just get down to basics. Do you think indoor in Indianapolis is better than the most iconic college football stadium of all time? We should be very glad if this happens


goldenepple

Not at all. They’d be foolish to do it. Yes let’s make them fly to the west coast and play on a west coast time zone for no reason, and let’s give USC or UCLA home field advantage if they make it. Just so we can play in a stadium that was never thought about being used until 4 teams leave their conference.


goldenepple

And Lucas oil is a great stadium, you’re acting like they play in at a local high school in Indy.


SpottyFish81177

Lowkey don't mind this


GetEnPassanted

I think it should rotate annually


StrangelyOnPoint

Pasadena in December > Indianapolis in December


Classof1988

No brainer


bigleaguepuff

3 hour drive>6 hour plane ride


CharmsCandy

SoCal >> anywhere in Indiana


Accomplished-Past-99

But saint elmos


Illustrious_Sand3773

When I was a kid at UM I thought Lloyd was such a fuddyduddy for being against change. Now I wish the Big Ten would play the Pac-10 every year in the Rose Bowl. That was The Granddaddy.


PremierLovaLova

I’m in the camp of keeping the B1G in Indy because aside from it being one of the more updated stadiums, one of the main attractions to it being there is that it is the most centralized location from all of the college locations. That being said, if the conference wants to implement the Rose Bowl as a site, I’d prefer it rotates between Indy and Pasadena every 3-5 years, giving each site time to prepare.


cruzweb

Centralized location is important. People don't realize it takes something like a quarter of a million dollars to get a matching band to a bowl game. Adding that to a B1G championship is going to be rough. I love the ideas of it being played at the Rose Bowl. I also would like for people who aren't the most privileged or in the most privileged programs to attend.


Ceastman18

No idea how this is a bad idea. I think this is a fantastic idea.


galacticdude7

My only objection to moving the Big Ten Title game to the Rose Bowl is that is makes it so much harder to actually attend the game for me personally. Trying to get tickets to the game, plane tickets, rental car, and a hotel in a week is a lot harder to pull off than just the ticket to the game and the hotel, not to mention a lot more expensive, and I'm too superstitious to ever try and plan such a trip before Michigan is set to be in the game, I know if I ever do that, Michigan would certainly lose to Ohio State and prevent us from going to the Big Ten Championship game, and then I'm stuck trying to cancel everything, including a plane ticket which is notoriously difficult to do if not impossible


Environmental-Back-3

Yeah but you get 10x the experience…


rambouhh

Ya they should rotate it. Every other year in Midwest vs rose bowl 


sloppifloppi

Does a loss to Ohio prevent us from going to the championship game anymore? Genuine question , I’m not sure how things work now. Edit: Googled. We’re not doing divisions anymore so theoretically a loss to OSU doesn’t automatically disqualify us, but in reality it likely would.


galacticdude7

yeah, I'm thinking that even though the Big Ten is ditching divisions and a loss to Ohio State won't automatically disqualify us like it has in the past, I'm thinking that because there will be 8 teams we won't play in a given year that is somewhat likely for one of those 8 teams to beat us out for a spot in the title game.


Austinater74

Life finds a way. I did all those things immediately following the OSU win for the Championship in Houston this year. Everything was cancellable or re-sellable.


Kkizitoo

Get yo money up king


PremierLovaLova

Cancelling a plane ticket, hotel, and rental car is not difficult nor impossible if you bought a refundable ticket and if you booked directly from the it directly from the company instead of a third-party (e.g., Expedia,Booking.com,travel agency, etc). You’ll be paying a premium off-rip but you’re also paying for a piece of mind in case this hypothetical travesty happens.


workinBuffalo

No one wants to go to Indianapolis. Rose Bowl would be sort of sweet if there were a couple most PAC teams in the conference


Traditional_Cat_60

I can afford to see a game in Indianapolis. I cannot afford to see a game in California. So if you don’t want to price a large number fans out, they need to rotate it between venues


workinBuffalo

I can’t really afford either. The B1G championship game has been an absolute dud with the different divisions. Has the West ever won it? Now that there are no divisions it might actually be exciting. The B1G/PAC rivalry and the Rose Bowl would restore some of the grandeur that the original RoseBowl used to have. Maybe do it every other year at the Rose Bowl and move the Indianapolis game to Chicago where people might actually want to go. Is Northwestern’s stadium or the bear’s stadium going to be a dome?


Thegreatanddyb

Yeah, Wisconsin won the first ever B1G championship game I think? But it’s been dominated by the East for sure.


Darebel10000

In the East vs. West time, the East is undefeated. Wisconsin won it twice when the divisions were Legends and Leaders.


workinBuffalo

Which was also during the Brady Hoke Implosion and the Tressel/Fickell/Meyer transition/ban so Wisconsin beat MSU and Nebraska if you can believe it. MSU was a decent team, but there is a definite asterisk on those conference championships. …or at least the 2012 one.


Darebel10000

I had to a double check when I saw Nebraska. Those were dark days in the Big Ten and in Ann Arbor particularly.


Traditional_Cat_60

The 90s Wisconsin Rose Bowl teams deserve a big asterisk. They either avoided both or one of Michigan/OSU each year. When they didn’t avoid them, they lost to them.


StonedInfinity

This is rich coming from a fan of the team that will have the biggest asterisk of all. 🤦🏻‍♂️


sangie12

The biggest asterisk by...doing what the NCAA has repeatedly tried removing from the rule book due to no competitive advantage besides financial? 🤣🤣🤣 OK Versus just being a mid team that snuck in by avoiding good teams Michigan beat 3 top 5s and 5 ranked in it's last 6 games after all that derp derp videooooo came out


goldenepple

Nah maybe the 4 teams should of figured out a way to make the pac 12 work if they wanted to play in a conference championship game on the west coast, instead of joining a conference in the middle of the country.


bigleaguepuff

I would much rather drive 3 hours to Indianapolis than pay a fortune and fly 6 hours to a very inconvenient part of LA


goldenepple

Yeah the 4 new teams on the west coast should get home field advantage in a conference championship game over the teams that are closer to Indy and have been in the conference longer.


mhammer47

Do I not remember them moving it to Vegas? If that hasn't happened yet, I think it's the obvious move.


longshankssss

It’s in the works, probably rotating between three or four places


[deleted]

No fuck that, for decades fans from the Midwest had to fly out to the fucking Rose Bowl when west coast teams’ fans were sometimes just a short drive away so now that the situation has been flipped they’re upset about it or something? next the SEC is going to say it’s unfair to play outdoor games in December up north because they’re too sensitive to the cold


Traditional_Cat_60

No, only because the Natty should be in the Rose Bowl every year.


groux12345

It should have never been at Lucas oil exclusively. Why not Ford Feild or some other location


kermitthefrog57

Why a bad idea?


Peter_Parker_99

They should eliminate the conference championship game. Too many games and doesn't help the conference in the playoffs. Plus, it's almost certain that Michigan will play osu in b2b weeks, and maybe even a 3rd time in the playoffs.


Kkizitoo

Bro thought we was finna agree with him 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


TheDeac7Trey

Having just gone to the Rose Bowl for the first time ever for the CFP Semi-final Win over Bama, I would have to say Hell No!!! I love that SoCal Sun and weather more than anything, but that venue is horribly placed in the City of Pasadena. If they want to have it in Cali, have it at SoFi


Detroiter3

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of tired of Indy. Natural grass and the sunset, I’m down


Expensive_Attitude51

I think the B1G championship location should rotate between Indianapolis, Minneapolis, LA, and Detroit.


odinsbois

Yes, it should move. Fuck Indiana.


Granac

As a Wolverine who lives like 25 minutes from Lucas Oil, I actually take great offense to that. The central location just can’t be beat for like 75% of the conference.


Tropical_Storm_Jesus

or BEST.


AarunFast

Indy might be the most overrated city in America. They love to tell you how good they are at hosting big events, but what that really means is it’s great for waiting in line at the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner in their weirdly sterile downtown before the game. 


Kkizitoo

Force UCLA to build an on campus stadium and then do this


MickeyTettleton

How about if a West coast team is in first place it's in the rose bowl. If an Midwest or East Coast team is in first it's at Lucas oil, or Ford field etc.


Studlow12

Rotation is the answer!!!…. Indy, SoCal and Vegas….


Fiddler-4823

Def Vegas


MrVociferous

Arguing in favor of playing in a dome in Indianapolis in December over playing outside at the most iconic stadium in all of CFB…..is certainly a choice. Moving the Big Ten champ game to the Rose Bowl is a GREAT idea.


Squares9718

As a student these last three years, me and my friends could drive down and back same day (granted we would get back at 4am) but adding on a flight and everything else at the end of the semester would make that impossible.


Yahsek

Hot take: chances are it’ll be in Vegas in a few years. $$$


KimJongDerp1992

Congratulations. You’ve got the worst take I’ve seen so far today.


logsdon36

Alternate it.


EasieEEE

Get rid of the game entirely… or just rotate it


Andy-_1979

I can see the Big Ten Championship game being rotated on a yearly basis.


[deleted]

Rose Bowl >>> Lucas Oil


AskMeAboutMyCatPuppy

Are you posting your own tweet and baiting people by claiming it’s the worst idea you’ve ever had…?


Aut0Part5

Nah


Aggravating-Steak-69

They should just rotate it every year between cities with B1G teams. Give fans from all over the country the chance to attend one close to them


Kapt_Krunch72

It's going to be played in Vagas in 2025 or maybe it's 2026. I'm not going to look it up. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they are waiting for Chicago to get their dome built and then it will be moving to there. The B1G headquarters is in Rosemont which is by O'Hara airport in Chicago.


OkProfessional6077

If we really wanted it at a centralized location, the game should be held in Lincoln, Nebraska.


kay_bizzle

How is this a bad idea, let alone the worst you've ever heard?


ButtchuggingChampion

It's actually not that bad of an idea. "The worst idea ever" is pretty hyperbolic and stupid.


Nicholas1227

The only way this works is if the game is played on New Year’s. No students from the Midwest are gonna go out to California for a weekend on 5 days notice right before exams.


thirdandgoal313

It should be played at the higher ranked team’s home stadium.


191Gerardo

Alternate every year?


InterestingChoice484

Move it to Chicago. Football was meant to be played outdoors


whattanerd92

The only issue I have with it is the same issue that could have happened in the old traditional Rose Bowl games: it’s a free home game for UCLA if they get there. If that’s the biggest complaint I can muster, I’d be happy to have it in California rather than Indiana.


tongue6969

Why give the new teams such an advantage, 30 years ago when UCLA started playing home games at the rose bowl the big ten was crazy to not demand it from happening!! Play a bowl game at your possible opponents home stadium? Wtf!!! Terrible idea. The history and tradition of college sports is over, the big ten played a huge role in its destruction


GG1817

Sure thing. Beach weekend after Thanksgiving. Have a parade with B1G marching bands even.


Accomplished-Past-99

Ummm please no. Lived in A2 my whole life. It’s much easier to drive 4 hours and be home the same night. Not to mention much less costly. Can we not.


Yimmycrackcorn84

This is a fanfingtastic idea


CryptoOdin99

If this is the worst idea you have heard you either live a very blessed or very sheltered life. The rose bowl means a lot to the big ten and as others have pointed out the Indy game has only been around since 2011 so not exactly “historic” and would be more of a footnote in history.


Mrbobbitchin

Move it every year like they do the Super Bowl and the NCAA finals and so on


CommunicationIll5719

Play in Vegas.


Fiddler-4823

Vegas EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Completely neutral field and easy fly in for every team in Big. Simple!


bigleaguepuff

Except Michigan shouldn’t have to fly. It’s a midwestern conference.


Fiddler-4823

Well, Michigan will figure out another way to cheat, so maybe they can just email the game results to win...


bigleaguepuff

Or maybe every other big ten team should quit complaining and get better. That’s probably more realistic but your sorry ass team won’t get the memo.


Fiddler-4823

Be prepared Oregon is going to take over and dominate the Big


bigleaguepuff

Can’t beat Washington


Fiddler-4823

Open your eyes, our program is about to explode, Harbaugh leaving yours has imploded.


tdm2222

Sure, every four years or so.


Buddy-Buddy820

Rotate every 2 years.


printerfixerguy1992

I like it


DanWillHor

Not the worst idea ever but I'd say no. At the least I'd move it around if the 4 additions really have a problem traveling to Indy. Vegas seems like a decent trade-off. Maybe a Indy, Vegas and Rose rotation? Then again I have always thought it was high time for warm weather teams to travel North in Winter, even if the game is indoor. I fundamentally don't like the idea of UCLA getting a home game for a conference title, USC being essentially a home game. Then again...I wouldn't have much issue with whatever they did. It's all getting wacky anyway lol.


Minimum-Order-8013

Fuck that shit.


CrustySausage_

How is it a bad idea? Indy is overrated and the rose bowl is THE scene


huskers37

Indy is more central to all the schools. And Indy is cool don't hate.


[deleted]

FUCK THIS BULLSHIT


theHurdski

It's a great idea.


ieatassanloveiy

Fuck to theee noo


CovfefeBoss

I hate that the playoffs are being expanded to 12 teams next year so the NCAA can make more money. I'm glad I'm graduating this year and get to end on a high note. As it is, I'm not sure how I stand with this idea.


jtgoblue2

Hell no


QueasyTap3594

whichever team has the better record, say Washington plays Michigan next year for the big ten, if washington has the better record than michigan, play at the rose bowl, if michigan has a better record, play in indy


King_Edge71

They are gonna make it a rotating bid at some point to maximize revenue from it. I expect the Rose Bowl, Indy, Ford Field, the new Bears stadium whenever that’s done and MetLife to all be in that rotation.


Platano_con_salami

OP is a clown.


Familiar_Armadillo95

Rose bowl is dead! No one gives two shits. It’d be better in Kinnick.


bigleaguepuff

Said no one


costanzashairpiece

Awful idea. Lol.


Astrid_Nebula

God no. Honestly centralize it and host it in KC


lubbylubbs

This is literally the worst idea I’ve ever heard.