IBJ reporters bring you coverage of the fanfare, festivities and the football from central Indiana and south Florida as the Hoosiers take on The University of Miami Hurricanes in the College Football Playoff National Championship.
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Downtown hotels are expected to be almost entirely sold out for both Friday and Saturday nights, and ticket prices for the game are soaring on the resale market.
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The Big Ten Conference joined the Southeastern Conference in crossing the $1 billion mark in total revenue for the 2024-25 fiscal year, marking a significant uptick in payouts to its member schools.
The tournament will be held at Fishers Event Center, the same venue where the Indy Ignite plays its home matches.
The Big Ten Conference released its 2026 league schedule on Tuesday.
The most notable changes they agreed to: Guaranteeing Notre Dame a spot in the field if it finishes in the Top 12 in the rankings.
If the commissioners can’t agree on a new number, the tournament would automatically stay at 12, with a deadline of Dec. 1, 2026, to make any changes for the following season.
In just 737 days, he turned what had been the Football Bowl Subdivision’s losingest program into the nation’s No. 1 seed heading into the playoffs, a legitimate championship contender and a Big Ten champion for the first time since 1967.
After completing the first perfect regular season in school history, the No. 2 Hoosiers will face off against No. 1 Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Amid growing pressure to raise funds to pay players, the Big Ten Conference has reportedly been in negotiations with an investor that would offer billions to help market media rights and other properties.
Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement to pool resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.
The agreement brings a seismic shift to hundreds of schools that were forced to reckon with the reality that their players are the ones producing the billions in TV and other revenue.
Indianapolis has been awash in Big Ten logos amid the conference’s basketball tournaments. But Indy is home to another sort of Big Ten gathering—one focused on improving cancer research.
The association has at least one rep from every Big Ten team and a majority of SEC programs. Both conferences declined to meet.
The proposal, described as a “working document” ahead of next week’s NCAA convention, would grant the Southeastern Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference rights to manage postseason championships such as the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
Indianapolis is set to host the conference’s big game through 2028, and Indiana Sports Corp President Patrick Talty says the city has hopes to continue beyond that time.
The University of Southern California’s football program also was fined $50,000 because of multiple violations of coaching staff rules over two seasons.
The 2023-2024 sports season was a prolonged goodbye for Adamson, but that was better than the abrupt ending that can befall most in the sports business.
Indianapolis has hosted the Big Ten’s men’s basketball tournament 13 times and the women’s tournament 25 times over the past 30 years.
Indianapolis has hosted the conference’s football championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium every year since its inception in 2011.
The university made the move after the team lost its ninth game in 11 outings on Tuesday and appeared unlikely to reach the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
The two wealthiest and most-powerful college conferences announced Friday the formation of a joint advisory group of university leaders and athletic directors, with the intent to find solutions to the challenges facing college sports.
