INDIANAPOLIS — The winner of the Big Ten Championship Game has an outside chance of slipping into the four-team College Football Playoff. The loser knows that it has been formally — if not officially — eliminated. It is a showdown between the third- and- fourth-best teams in the conference when No. 6 Wisconsin faces No. 8 Penn State in the Big Ten title game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday (8:17 p.m. ET, FOX). The Badgers are ranked sixth in the latest CFP rankings and the Nittany Lions sit seventh. The winner will likely need both No. 3 Clemson and No. 4 Washington to lose its conference title games as No. 5 Michigan is positioned to be the first benefactor should the Tigers or Huskies stumble. So the fate of the winner is hard to determine and some players aren’t spending much time worrying about it. “I’ve said…
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