re: Big 12/SEC Announcement coming today

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It sucks for the sugar bowl, but it's a strong move for the SEC and Big 12 to rival the Rose Bowl. Makes a lot of sense. It's a good power move IMO.

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I kinda feel like the opposite. The Rose Bowl model has kinda faded from relevance.

People somehow think that the Rose Bowl:

1) has always only had big 10 vs pac teams (it hasn't)
2) still has traditional value if it includes runners up from those conferences (it doesn't)

If the SEC and Big 12 add to this silliness by also doing an automatic match-up the whole scene at the top of college football just gets even more messy and unwieldy

The proposed SEC/Big 12 game isn't a tradition yet and should be stopped before it further fouls up the flexibility of college football conferences. No matter what the outcome of that game unless you set up a multiple team playoff field before you start the playoff it just gets even more subjective and prone to manipulation.

If we want to use conference champs as the basis for a playoff then that's fine but it shouldn't be limited to just those four conferences when some years another conference rep will be better than some or all of those champs.

If we want to use a playoff model that doesn't use conference championships as your method for qualification then the whole thing is a distraction (neither the Rose nor the SEC/Big 12 matchup are logical as the first rounds in the playoff)