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OK, Jim Delany, you’re up.

The time has come for you to earn that $3 million the Big Ten Conference pays you every year. Your league is looking bad and only you have the power to fix it.

How bad? Another College Football Playoff field has been selected and once again the Big Ten is on the outside looking in. This is the second consecutive year the conference hasn’t had a team in the four-team field and the third consecutive year its champion failed to get a nod from the CFP selection committee.

A playoff seemed like a great idea at the time, but what fun is it when your teams are consistently left out? The SEC and ACC have hogged the bids in the first five years of the playoff and the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 have had to fight one another for the remaining spot or two every year.

This can’t be what Delany, the commissioner of the Big Ten and arguably the most powerful man in college athletics, had in mind when he and the commissioners of the other four power conferences pushed through the first playoff for FBS teams. The idea received near-universal acclaim at the time, but five years later the playoff essentially has turned into the ACC/SEC Challenge.