The conference makes the obvious choice, but it is only a one-year pledge.
Indianapollis' Lucas Oil Stadium will host the first Big Ten Championship football game.Sorry Cleveland - and Chicago, Detroit and Green Bay.
The Big Ten announced this evening that Indianapolis has been chosen as the proposed site for the first Big Ten Football Championship Game in December of 2011.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said at the league meetings earlier in the week in Chicago that the conference was likely to pick a site for one year, because there wasn't time to fully investigate the possibilities for a multi-year agreement.
Once he said that, Indy jumped to the front of the line, since the Big Ten already holds its basketball tournaments there.
Four other cities had expressed interest in hosting, and the Big Ten will have to decide whether it wants to rotate the title game or find a permanent home.
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said he is in favor of playing the game indoors. Lucas Oil Stadium is one of the premier indoor football stadiums in the country.