If you want to know why there is a groundswell of support for the Big Ten Conference adding a 12th school, look no further than the final Saturday of the college football season, when the SEC and Big 12 dominated the nationâ??s television sets with their title games and the Big Ten twiddled its thumbs.
Indeed, a sagging national image and the need for media exposure late in the football season are the reasons behind the Big Tenâ??s announcement Tuesday that it will spend the next 12 to 18 months investigating its expansion options.
But all the Big Ten really did Tuesday was cast a line into the lake. So which school, if any, will end up on the Big Tenâ??s hook?