The conference championship game was a made-for-television creation designed to solve another made-for-television creation: conference expansion. Then college football conferences kept embarking on that initial made-for-television creation – expanding and expanding – to the point the made-for-television championship game has been ruined by all those made-for-television expansion creations. Here in a season of its grandest revival, the Big Ten will stage its championship game Saturday night in Indianapolis with no guarantee that the winner will advance to the College Football Playoff.