RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — The Big Ten is flexing, subtly but perceptively.
The College Football Playoff trophy sits front and center on a pedestal bearing the Indiana logo at the league’s annual spring meetings. It is flanked by two wooden NCAA championship trophies, one for UCLA’s women’s basketball title and another for Michigan’s men’s basketball—both of which ended a quarter-century’s worth of frustration for the conference on the hard court just over six weeks ago. If they wanted to, they could have expanded the display with a half-dozen other awards in numerous other sports.
