"We are excited to work with Indiana Sports Corp. and Lucas Oil Stadium to finalize an agreement to hold the inaugural Big Ten football championship game in the city of Indianapolis," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said in a statement. "We felt at this time it was important to identify a site for the first championship game and then spend more time with other cities and venues with respect to both our basketball tournaments and the football championship games in the future."
Nebraska will join the conference in 2011, giving the conference 12 teams, the amount required by the NCAA to hold a championship game. The Lincoln, Neb., campus will be the farthest conference school from Indy, about 640 miles away.
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