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SEC, Big Ten building momentum to further expand College Football Playoff to 14 or 16 team

Posted on 2/16/25 at 8:22 pm
Posted by Alabama_Fan
The Road Less Traveled
Member since Sep 2020
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Posted on 2/16/25 at 8:22 pm
Reportedly in support of moving to a 9 game conference schedule

Sources: SEC, Big Ten building momentum to further expand College Football Playoff to 14 or 16 teams (yahoo sports)
Posted by tattoo
Fantasy Island
Member since Oct 2017
1884 posts
Posted on 2/16/25 at 9:35 pm to
It would be folly for the SEC to go to a 9 game conf schedule but Sankey, the worst commissioner in college football, is too weak and foolish to prevent it.

He appears determined to destroy the SEC. Someone help me with this but isn’t his stupid deal with ESPN providing ~$20 mil less per team per annum than the Big10 gets? (Hope I’m wrong.) Plus the SEC is on far fewer platforms. The Big 10 has out-maneuvered Sankey at every turn. He is turning the diamond mine he inherited into a coal mine.

Plus he appears to despise Alabama rather than appreciating all she has done for the SEC.
Posted by 1BamaRTR
In Your Head Blvd
Member since Apr 2015
23794 posts
Posted on 2/16/25 at 9:39 pm to
This sport continues to get more stupid. Will be at a 24 team playoff within 10 years
Posted by YStar
Member since Mar 2013
17881 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 6:42 am to
quote:

It would be folly for the SEC to go to a 9 game conf schedule but Sankey, the worst commissioner in college football, is too weak and foolish to prevent it.

He appears determined to destroy the SEC. Someone help me with this but isn’t his stupid deal with ESPN providing ~$20 mil less per team per annum than the Big10 gets? (Hope I’m wrong.) Plus the SEC is on far fewer platforms. The Big 10 has out-maneuvered Sankey at every turn. He is turning the diamond mine he inherited into a coal mine.

Plus he appears to despise Alabama rather than appreciating all she has done for the SEC.


Perfectly stated.

It feels like Sankey is a mole who got the job to tear down Alabama, weaken the SEC and is now finishing the job by making us far weaker financially.

No one can be that stupid to be beaten out so many times as Sankey has yet here we are with him AGAIN being outmatched by the B1G.

He has to be doing this on purpose.
Posted by YStar
Member since Mar 2013
17881 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 6:43 am to
Seriously, like why do we need more conference games when we're the only ones punished for playing them?

Why do we need more teams when we're the only ones every committee will seek to leave teams out and rationalize in the end?
Posted by Gj4Bama
Roll Tide!
Member since Nov 2006
958 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:06 am to
Play more SEC teams so we can beat each other up and keep every SEC team out of the playoffs seems to be his goal. I’d rather play out of conference games to keep THEM out! Force the big 10, acc and the likes to play against the SEC. How about that?
Posted by TideSaint
Hill Country
Member since Sep 2008
79429 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:20 am to
Ugh.

Can we just go back to 4 playoff teams?
Posted by InkStainedWretch
Member since Dec 2018
3669 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 9:38 am to
This is about money rather than what's best for the sport.
Posted by narddogg81
Vancouver
Member since Jan 2012
21241 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:21 am to
well theres a surprise. go back to the BCS
Posted by Amarillo Tide
Amarillo, TX
Member since Aug 2023
957 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:49 am to
Shocker. (extreme sarcasm). I saw this coming for years. They won't be happy until we're at 32 teams in the play offs.
Posted by crimsontater
Trenton GA
Member since Dec 2009
3795 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:50 am to
i wish we could go back to 4 teams, with the bcs system picking. only thing i would demand, no secret hidden computer algorithm's could be used. everything out in the open
Posted by Diego Ricardo
Alabama
Member since Dec 2020
8796 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:51 pm to
quote:

It would be folly for the SEC to go to a 9 game conf schedule but Sankey, the worst commissioner in college football, is too weak and foolish to prevent it.



We should only go to 9 games if ESPN will pay for that comparatively better game than what they were getting in OOC
Posted by Diego Ricardo
Alabama
Member since Dec 2020
8796 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 12:54 pm to
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i wish we could go back to 4 teams, with the bcs system picking. only thing i would demand, no secret hidden computer algorithm's could be used. everything out in the open



NCAA Tournament Committee in basketball has spent decades tuning it but they've arrived on a system that is fairly transparent and without much controversy on the selection Sunday. The problem with the college football playoff is the complexity. As my dad always said, the complexity is where they're screwing you. If you make something unknowable - or damn near it - it is furtive ground for fraud and backdoor deal-making.
Posted by dominantD
Member since Sep 2017
311 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:14 pm to
Good luck to them holding the interest of the remaining fans of "college" sports.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
65769 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 8:50 pm to
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moving to a 9 game conference schedule

Please do this.
Watching Bama play the Kent States, Chattanooga s, etc is simply a waste of time
Posted by RollTide33
Member since Sep 2019
3787 posts
Posted on 2/17/25 at 10:13 pm to
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Watching Bama play the Kent States, Chattanooga s, etc is simply a waste of time


Games against teams like this allow many Bama fans who could never afford to bring their families to a game against an SEC opponent to see a game in person at BDS. Seeing Bama in person and experiencing the environment in T-Town is a once in a lifetime opportunity for many. Not a waste for some.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
68288 posts
Posted on 2/18/25 at 5:05 am to
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Play more SEC teams so we can beat each other up and keep every SEC team out of the playoffs seems to be his goal.


I don't think we read the article. The idea behind this expansion is that the SEC and Big Ten both get FOUR guaranteed spots in the CFP, thus making it safer to expand from eight to nine conference games. Likewise, the SEC and Big Ten would form a partnership of sorts so that you will see more SEC-B1G match-ups during the regular season as conference record, not overall record, will now determine who makes the CFP.

That's the proposal. As shitty as CFP expansion is, this is the best idea out of a slew of terrible ideas.
This post was edited on 2/18/25 at 5:06 am
Posted by YStar
Member since Mar 2013
17881 posts
Posted on 2/18/25 at 8:01 am to
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I don't think we read the article. The idea behind this expansion is that the SEC and Big Ten both get FOUR guaranteed spots in the CFP, thus making it safer to expand from eight to nine conference games.


Again that serves the B1G who play weaker conference schedules and would ensure they could get 5 or 6 in while we would be held to 4.

They have literally shown us the recipe for how they will hold us down this past season. Anyone negotiating in good faith with them is a fool
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
88605 posts
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:12 pm to
quote:

It would be folly for the SEC to go to a 9 game conf schedule but Sankey, the worst commissioner in college football, is too weak and foolish to prevent it.

He appears determined to destroy the SEC


If we stay at 8 conference games, then some traditional rivalries are going to get the boot. Bama/Tenn, UGA/Auburn, UK/UT, Bama/LSU, LSU/Ole Miss, etc. are all going to cease being played annually. I don't like Sankey, and I don't like adding a 9th game on the face of it, but hanging onto these rivalries is about the last semblance of history and tradition we still have left. So I don't think we can say "he wants to destory the SEC" in one breath, then in the next advocate for getting rid of the above rivalries. If going to 9 games keeps those games played yearly then I suppose I'm for it.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
68288 posts
Posted on 2/18/25 at 2:55 pm to
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They have literally shown us the recipe for how they will hold us down this past season. Anyone negotiating in good faith with them is a fool



This isn't a negotiation. This is a dictation. If you actually read the article it's revealed that the Big Ten and the SEC are the sole decision makers on conference expansion beginning in 2026. This was agreed upon by the other conferences after the SEC and Big Ten practically said, "Do this or we're out and forming our own league." The agreement stipulates that the Big Ten and the SEC have to consult the other conferences but in the end it's ultimately the decision of what is essentially the Power Two as to where the sport goes from here.

Unfortunately the cat is out of the bag. I was never a fan of the CFP, I was never a fan of playoff expansion, but this is the world we live in. And, as I said in my earlier post, this is the best idea out of a stable of bad ones.
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