THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN THE BIG TEN.
Why is this even a thing we're talking about? A) Because it's a long offseason and B) because John Ourand of Sports Business Journal floated it as a possibility during Richard Deitsch's Sports Illustrated Media Podcast. Ourand's thinking was that this could become an option if Turner were to pick up some of the remaining Big Ten media rights (via Corn Nation):
So if not ESPN, who would it be? Ourand mentioned NBC as a candidate, with a couple of broadcast windows available on Saturdays, surrounding their package of Notre Dame home football games.