Rumor?: Big Ten championship game to be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas "in near future"

First reaction: wow, it would be idiotic to not keep the CG money in the B1G states.

Second reaction: eh, it's not like Indy is passing that money to the State of Michigan.

Third reaction: this makes a lot of sense because basically every airport has a non-stop flight to Las Vegas.

They should move the game around within the conference footprint annually and try to promote a Super Bowl type showcase. 

The game is professional anyways.

Beats an annual affair in Indy or the SEC in Georgia every year.

Potential hosts (cities must bid like the Super Bowl):

Indianapolis

Las Vegas

Los Angeles

Detroit

Minneapolis

Chicago (when they upgrade their stadium)

Seattle (maybe - outdoor stadium issues)

New York City (maybe - outdoor stadium issues)

Philadelphia (maybe - outdoor Stadium issues)

If it became a rousing success, you could even explore putting the game out of market such as Dallas or Phoenix or Miami as well.

Embrace the change or be killed like the Pac-12???

In those years, really going to cost to see all the non-regular season games, in person, of a Michigan Championship team (in the new CFP model):

-Vegas: B1G Championship

-Potential away game (Campus site): First Round (might be home game, or bye)

-Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona or California: Quarterfinal

-Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona or California: Semifinal

-Unknown, but the three so far are Houston, Vegas and Miami: Championship

Tickets, Hotel, Meals, Flights, etc... Yikes!

Las Vegas is a 5 hour drive to the closest B1G school. Makes perfect sense. 

How about Denver? They have an NFL stadium and is even further away from every B1G team's fan base. 

This has gotten all so dumb.

It makes sense, I guess. Indy seems great for a conference with a Midwest footprint. Since the B1G has a footprint wherever, just have it anywhere.

As much fun as it would be our Big 10 teams have catered enough to the west coast Pac 12 schools with the Rose Bowl. Screw going out that way for a championship. You come here

I suspect there will be a rotating model given a coast to coast conference. Indy, Detroit, NY, DC, Chicago, Green Bay, Vegas, LA, Seattle. Not saying all of those will get championship games but maybe pick four of those and rotate. And it might be fun to get some cold weather conference championship games, because this is the Big Ten.

Hate this but I live in Denver so much shorter of a trip for me. 

Sponsored by DraftKings?

The Big Ten Championship game should be played in Saudi Arabia. We'd better get our hands on those petrodollars before the SEC does. 

Odds are it will be a rematch between Michigan vs OSU. USC may occasionally finish in 2nd place.

Man i so want Stanford and Cal to be in. 

Then i want Big West to be nicknamed Big Pac.

Then i want Rose Bowl between Big Pac and rest of Big annually. 

Then i want to be there when ND calls league office. And they get hung up on after being put on hold for awhile. 

Is that so wrong?

Nope, f*ck that. 

As much as I would love it being at the Rose Bowl, it does make me think back to all those times Michigan went to the Rose Bowl and had to play in what was a virtual home game for USC. 

Vegas would make for a ridiculously fun weekend, but at this point, I hope they offer to rotate where it goes. The Big Ten now officially has a national footprint. Leverage that.

if you want to put it in Vegas, one year, that’s great. But then, the next year, why, not Indy, and then NY the year after, SF the following year, Detroit the next, and so on?

Good - the event should be held all across the conference footprint. I get Indy is a great host town, but having football there every year - and basketball there most years - really ignores so many great host cities in the conference:

• Minneapolis
• Detroit
• NYC (Outdoors but still worth it)
• Washington DC
• Chicago (When they get their new stadium)

With the new members, I think alternating between the OG footprint of the conference and the new team locales would be great:

• Los Angeles
  • SoFi Stadium
  • Rose Bowl
• Las Vegas
  • Allegiant Stadium
• Seattle
  • Lumen Field
• Santa Clara
  • Levi's Stadium (especially if Cal/Stanford ever join)

Something like 1 in every 3 years being out west would be great.

Well, as long as it's done to protect the ideal of the student athlete....

It seems to me that long term planning is a fool's errand with the current state of unrest in CFB.  This seems perfectly on brand for the B1G office.

Thank God. Indy sucks ass and is a terrible place to go to. Vegas or any other destination city in early December is much better.

I think playing at Rose Bowl or Vegas once every 3 years is the most a championship game should be played outside of the footprint of the other 14 schools.  I will say Vegas is way better equipped to handle fans than Indy.  As much as people talk about the hotels that are walkable/downtown Indy from what I can gather there are less than 8,000 rooms in that area.  MGM Grand alone has about 7,000 rooms.  The Strip has 100,000 rooms and another 50,000 rooms off the Strip.  

Makes sense given all the west coast teams soon to be in the conference and Vegas is about as well to set up to handle something like this as any city in the country.

The host stadium should alternate venues, and include indoor and outdoor.

Cant play in the snow? Too bad for you.

Weak sauce fans who are afraid of the cold? Forget them.

Buy a ski jacket and sack up like they do every weekend in Green Bay.

Love it.

With all due respect to Indianapolis, Las Vegas is one of the easiest locations in the country to access. There are direct flights from every major city; there are direct flights from lots of non-major cities too! There are more than 600 direct flights to Vegas each day, compared to 150 to Indy. Moreover, Las Vegas is THE convention city; there are 150,000 hotel rooms (compared to 33K for Indy). 

Additionally, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, USC, etc. are not "regional alum bases." Their alums and fans extend coast-to-coast. It's absolutely not a challenge to fill Allegiant with the massive fan bases of these universities. 

I don't think Vegas should host every year...but once every few years would be epic (rotating with other Midwest and East Coast cities)...

Yes, because when I think of championship locales for the B1G under its transformation, I immediately think Las Vegas. What a sellout location. Definitely, oppose. 

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!