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Big Ten Championship Game

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DaddyBigBucks;1716599; said:
haha -- What're ya doin in this thread? Lost?

(just yankin yer chain woof)
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ha! No sir! But as a fan of Conf. Championship games - I snooped around to add my $.02 and to hear the various opinions :)

Whenever and wherever the game is played - that makes for a good day of football watchin'

Big 10 Champ game - 1:30pm
SEC Champ Game - 5:00pm
Big 12 Champ game - 8:00pm

Switch em around as you see fit but this is an awesome day of grilling out and pigskin!
 
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Colvinnl;1717547; said:
How does the ticket situation operate in other conferences! If the two teams are allocated ~45% of the tickets then I would not think homefield advantage would much of an issue.
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At least in the ACC: In an effort to sell the game out early, the conference allocates a number of tickets to each team, which are bought before the season starts. So it would be up to the teams in the actual CCG to get the tix from them. Think BT bball tourney.
 
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Whenever and wherever the game is played - that makes for a good day of football watchin'
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As Southerners, would you find it more entertaining to see a more efficient game in the Indy Dome (Lucas Oil) or a chance of wicked wind & snow whipping off of Lake Michigan at Soldier Field?
 
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Dryden;1716560; said:
Familiarize yourself with this building.

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I imagine the Big Ten competition committee will spend all of 25 seconds figuring this one out.
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Great! Then when the game's not going on, the fans can watch paint dry. It should be in Chicago or it should be rotated through every NFL stadium in the Big Ten footprint other than Green Bay.. Indy is nothing special as a city, and it shouldn't automatically trump Cleveland or Minneapolos or even frickin' Detroit.
 
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BigWoof31;1717549; said:
ha! No sir! But as a fan of Conf. Championship games - I snooped around to add my $.02 and to hear the various opinions :)

Whenever and wherever the game is played - that makes for a good day of football watchin'

Big 10 Champ game - 1:30pm
SEC Champ Game - 5:00pm
Big 12 Champ game - 8:00pm

Switch em around as you see fit but this is an awesome day of grilling out and pigskin!
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Great football day indeed, but you'll need to switch the Big 12 game to the Pac whatever game.
 
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Not that it'll ever happen, but my vote would be to play at the home field of the higher ranked (by whatever metric) team. It would give the game a lot more character than other CCGs. I'd venture a guess that the majority of the money comes from sponsors and TV rather than ticket sales, so even if it's at a smaller stadium, it wouldn't be that big a deal.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1717559; said:
Great! Then when the game's not going on, the fans can watch paint dry. It should be in Chicago or it should be rotated through every NFL stadium in the Big Ten footprint other than Green Bay.. Indy is nothing special as a city, and it shouldn't automatically trump Cleveland or Minneapolos or even frickin' Detroit.
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I can agree with you about the cities, but playing an outdoor CCG in December will not help and will almost definitely hurt recruiting. There's already the negative of living in cold weather that keeps players from coming north or sends them south. Highlighting crap weather by playing the premier game of your conference in that weather will only emphasize the weather, and reinforce the slow, plodding stereotype of the Big Ten.
 
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BigWoof31;1717549; said:
ha! No sir! But as a fan of Conf. Championship games - I snooped around to add my $.02 and to hear the various opinions :)

Whenever and wherever the game is played - that makes for a good day of football watchin'

Big 10 Champ game - 1:30pm
SEC Champ Game - 5:00pm
Big 12 Champ game - 8:00pm

Switch em around as you see fit but this is an awesome day of grilling out and pigskin!
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There is no more Big 12 game, unless they expand to 12, I bet the Big 10 title game will fill the prime time spot.
 
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