Friday Night Lights are coming to the Big Ten, but nobody is going to want to watch.
On Wednesday, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told the Chicago Tribune that the conference will broadcast six Friday Night games in September/October beginning in 2017, a big part of the conference's new TV deal with ESPN and Fox.
At first thought, it sounds like it could work. There are already some Friday night college football games, but it's either #MACtion or some Pac 12 matchups that start too late and don't help their desire to eradicate "East Coast bias" — a.