USA Today · Dec 6, 2016
Jim Delany's job has changed, but his influence has not
USA TODAY Sports' Nicole Auerbach breaks down the 2016 College Football playoff games between Alabama-Washington and Clemson-Ohio State.USA TODAY Sports
(Photo: Brian Spurlock, USA TODAY Sports)CHICAGO — Jim Delany doesn’t play favorites, but he does, apparently, root for players who nearly maul him on the sidelines.
The Big Ten commissioner laughs as he tells the story — and, because he’s hanging out in the green room of the Big Ten Network, he figures he might as well ask if there’s footage somewhere — of the time he got laid out on the sideline by Nebraska wide receiver Stanley Morgan Jr., about eight minutes before Nebraska and Illinois kicked off on October 1.
