So, this is how Big Ten football withers. This is how college football’s super-conference power structure dies. With an act of Ohio State greed.

How appropriate, within an industry guided by a get-mine, forget-you philosophy.

The past few years have included blue-sky ideation about the possibility of an elitist College Football League emerging that uplifts the crème de la crème to a higher stratosphere.

Enacting such a change would require the sport’s biggest brands to untether themselves from the existing conference structure.

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