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Yeah, they’re the 12th ranked team that is bumped from the playoff by the Truck Drivers’ auto-bid
That would be hilarious, but most of us know they’re not finishing nearly that high
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They are gonna pull all the shit they can to maximize the # of SEC teams they can justify putting in
Look for lots of hilarious sneaking in of SEC teams like Texas A&M in and out at the tail end of the top 25 to give the borderline teams "another top 25 win!"
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Oh yea the logic as old as time. SEC team beats "top whatever team" in the first couple weeks of the season, "top whatever team" ends up going 7-5, SEC team still gets credited by the pundits for beating "top whatever team" even though that team proved their preseason ranking was way off.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Sources: Big Ten, SEC eye schedule partnership
SEC and Big Ten athletic directors will meet next week to discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling and preferences for automatic bids, sources told ESPN.
Sources: Big Ten, SEC to talk possible scheduling partnership
Big Ten and SEC athletic directors will discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling, along with their preferences for automatic bids, in the next iteration of the College Football Playoff.The discussion is to take place at an in-person meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, next week, multiple sources from both conferences told ESPN on Monday.
The meeting is a continuation of the Big Ten-SEC joint advisory group, which was formed in February and includes the leagues' university presidents, chancellors and athletic directors. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti are scheduled to meet with the athletic directors for one day.
"There is hope that we can definitely move the needle and make some progress on different things," one Big Ten source said.
The future scheduling partnership could hinge on whether the SEC eventually decides to go to nine conference games -- a topic one SEC source said hasn't been a focus of conversations lately. Some Big Ten athletic directors could push back on any agreement if the SEC doesn't move to nine games, because the Big Ten already plays nine league opponents.
"If we're all going to figure this out," one source said, "we've got to be on equal footing."
Sources in both leagues told ESPN on Monday they would prefer to have potentially four automatic bids each to the playoff when the next contract begins in 2026. CFP leaders haven't determined yet what the playoff will look like beyond this season and next. Some said they need to know that before making any decisions about future scheduling partnerships.
"I'm for anything that gives us the maximum number of postseason opportunities," one SEC source said. "I don't count bowl games as postseason opportunities."
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Big Ten, SEC Take Next Step Toward Control Over College Football
The conferences can further shape the playoff as they see fit and plot ways to further gerrymander the selection process in their favor.
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Big Ten, SEC Take Next Step Toward Control Over College Football
The conferences can further shape the playoff as they see fit and plot ways to further gerrymander the selection process in their favor.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.—One of the rewritten commandments in George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm.
If college football has gone to the pigs, then there are two Napoleons in the sport right now—Greg Sankey and Tony Petitti. The commissioners of the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten, respectively, seem to be strategically working toward the kind of totalitarian takeover that happened in Orwell’s 1945 work. The next step could come next week, as their leagues discuss decisions that affect the whole of the sport but are likely to be made in the best interests of themselves.
Animal Farm was an allegorical satire about Joseph Stalin turning the zeitgeist of the 1917 Russian Revolution into a ruthless power grab as ruler of the Soviet Union. The pigs lead an overthrow of the humans, then find that they like being in charge. They turn their utopian farm—which was built on the credo “All Animals Are Equal”—into another iteration of corrupt authority. The commandments of the farm are rewritten, with Napoleon as the authoritarian leader of a porcine ruling class.
Here in the college athletic world, NCAA rule (the Romanov dynasty, if you will) has been largely overthrown and replaced with conference autonomy. And within that revolutionary leadership cabal, the SEC and the Big Ten are consolidating power—to the detriment of everyone else. It started with realignment raids on the Big 12 and Pac-12, triggering major revenue disparities, and it hasn’t ended there.
There is an Oct. 10 meeting in Nashville for administrators from both leagues, per multiple media reports. This is under the guise of a Big Ten-SEC “advisory group” formed last February, which immediately made the hair stand up on the backs of the necks of everyone outside those leagues. Apex predators coming together doesn’t tend to go well for those further down the food chain.
The announcement was couched in airy, non-threatening language about the “challenges” facing college sports: “These challenges, including but not limited to recent court decisions, pending litigation, a patchwork of state laws, and complex governance proposals, compel the two conferences to take a leadership role in developing solutions for a sustainable future of college sports.”
Yeah, they’ll discuss the House v. NCAA legal settlement at this meeting. Probably some other issues. They’ll also get serious about taking more control of college football away from the rest of the FBS.
Among the non-“challenging” items that will be discussed: future scheduling agreements between the Big Ten and SEC and “their preference for automatic bids in the next iteration of the College Football Playoff,” according to ESPN.
What’s at stake: the SEC and Big Ten further rigging the playoff in their favor, when they already have all the advantages. They don’t need to further manipulate the system, but they’re prepared to do it. And they’ve already been handed the power to make decisions for everyone.
To quickly recap: We have an agreed-upon format for a 12-team playoff for this season and next, but nothing beyond that is ironclad in a contract with ESPN that runs from 2026 to ’32. At present, there are automatic bids for five conference champions and seven at-large bids, with the near-certainty that four of those automatic spots will go to the champions of the SEC, Big Ten, Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big 12. The fifth automatic bid goes to the highest-ranked champion of the Group of 5 conferences.
The Big Ten and SEC already test-drove their playoff power grab last February. Among the ideas proposed: expansion to 14 teams, with automatic top-two seeds for their conferences; at least three guaranteed playoff bids for the Big Ten and SEC, with two each for the ACC and Big 12; and Petitti himself pushing for four automatic bids for his league and the SEC.
It was a brazenly obnoxious proposal. Two leagues scared to compete despite already having major advantages across the board. That tempest went underground for a while, but in March two significant decisions were made by the College Football Playoff Management Committee, which consists of the commissioners of every conference plus Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua:
- Unequal playoff revenue sharing tilted in favor of the Big Ten and SEC.
- Control over the future format of the CFP from 2026–32 was largely ceded to the Big Ten and SEC (with ESPN an involved partner).
Why would the rest of the leagues agree to such a strong-arm move? Because they clearly perceived a threat that the Big Ten and SEC could break away entirely, killing the sport as a national entity once and for all.
So control was ceded. And now those two leagues will decide what’s best for everyone—meaning what’s best for themselves.
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”—Squealer, Napoleon’s propagandist in Animal Farm.
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This would be a great scenario, but it would also mean that OSU also loses in the B1G championship…
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