The Big Ten Was Awful on the Field This Season, but a Cash Cow off It

We have good news and bad news for you, Big Ten fans. Bad news first--you always ask for the bad news first. The bad news is that, Ohio State (and maybe Northwestern?) aside, Big Ten football was a borderline farce in 2012. But the good news is that at least the conference siphoned more money off of that prolonged display of mediocrity than any other conference in the nation in 2012. That's according to Forbes Magazine, which ranked the major conferences by their incomes. Here's what Forbes had ...