CFP championship game is preview of expanded Big Ten; Pac-12 gets a chance for fantastic finish
The College Football Playoff championship is quite the stage for Washington and Michigan to get reacquainted with each other
HOUSTON (AP) — The College Football Playoff championship is quite the stage for Washington and Michigan to get reacquainted with each other.
The teams play for the national title on Monday night. Starting next season, they’ll compete against each other for Big Ten titles.
“I imagine all the Big Ten folks in Chicago in the office, they’re sitting like a rat in a cheese factory right now for sure,” said Washington co-defensive coordinator William Inge, who was a graduate assistant at Iowa and assistant at Indiana for seven years.
The Big Ten's coast-to-coast expansion began in the summer of 2022 when it voted in Southern California and UCLA beginning in 2024. The Pac-12's demolition was assured just over a year later when it failed to land a lucrative media rights contract. Oregon and Washington in August accepted invitations from the Big Ten and four other Pac-12 schools bolted to the Big 12.
