So this is the latest chapter in the long, messed-up history of college football and its eternal pursuit of determining a champion and making a lot of money in the process. The SEC/Big Ten’s reasoning undoubtedly falls back on the oldest debate in college football — difficulty of schedule.

If you’re sick of college football players getting rich only to watch them get up and leave at the first slight, and you wish everything would just stay the same, take heart. The Big Ten and SEC are right there with you.

I’m prepared to vote for seeding change,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said. “But it has to be unanimous.” At least for next season, anyway. Sankey and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, speaking after joint meetings in New Orleans with their conferences' 34 athletic directors,

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Commissioners of the Southeastern and Big Ten conferences hinted that they know how they're going to vote if the issue arises of changing the seeding format for future College Football Playoff tournaments.

Following days of meetings in New Orleans, Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey held a joint press conference in which they expressed support for changing the seeding process to the College Football Playoff for the 2024 season.