Report: Future Big Ten Football Championships Heading to Las Vegas

Iowa radio show says Indianapolis may lose the league title game for a couple of years

Kaleb Henry | Aug 10, 2023

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The home of the Big Ten Conference Football championship game may no longer be solely Indianapolis.

Des Moines-based radio show "Miller and Condon" reports that future Big Ten title games will be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

"I think that the Big Ten football people are getting very, very close — in fact, maybe dotting I's and crossing T's — that the Big Ten Football championship is coming to Las Vegas," Ken Miller said Thursday from a remote broadcast from Las Vegas. "Potentially twice in the next five years."

The move is not expected to make Las Vegas the permanent home of the game, with games rotating back to Indianapolis.

"This is happening quick," Miller went on to say. "Apparently the Big Ten offices, Big Ten commissioner, whoever is in charge of that, is getting real close to signing off on the Big Ten Football championship moving from Indianapolis for at least a couple of years."

Since its inception in 2011, the Big Ten championship game has been played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The league is coming up on the second year of a three-year deal with Lucas Oil Stadium.

As of right now, 2023 is the final year that the Big Ten will decide championship game teams by division winners. Beginning in 2024, the top two teams in the league standings will face off for the conference title.

Published Aug 10, 2023

KALEB HENRY

Kaleb Henry is an award-winning sports reporter, covering collegiate athletics since 2014 via radio, podcasting, and digital journalism. His experience with Big Ten Conference teams goes back more than a decade, including time covering programs such as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oregon Ducks, and USC Trojans. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated since 2021. Kaleb has won multiple awards for his sports coverage from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. Prior to working in sports journalism, Kaleb was a Division I athlete on the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Track and Field team where he discussed NCAA legislation as SIUE's representative to the Ohio Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.