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The Big Ten’s Tony Petitti and the ACC’s Jim Phillips indicated Tuesday that expansion of the major postseason events might ...
While there is a general mood that college football should expand its playoff from the current 12-team format, there is still ...
Sankey addressed several hot-button issues during his state-of-the-conference address Monday at SEC media days in Atlanta.
After the SEC appeared to drop its support for a controversial redesign of the College Football Playoff, the Big Ten is standing firm on the plan.
The SEC has drawn its line in the sand, pushing for a format that reflects its supremacy in college football as well as its financial clout. Whether the rest of the sport will fall in line or ...
The Big Ten proposed a model in which it and the SEC would receive half of the 16 berths regardless of regular-season results ...
If the Big Ten and SEC can't get it done for this year, it's a good bet to go into effect in 2026 when the two conferences gain even greater control over the playoff format. More automatic ...
New College Football Playoff Format Comes With Controversy as SMU Edges Alabama for Last Spot. The first-round games are set for December 20 and 21, while the quarterfinal bowl games are on New Year’s ...
Soon, they are expected to exercise that control. Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league ...
The playoff's undecided format for 2026 and beyond is the subject of much debate here this week at the SEC's spring meetings. The conversation centers on two models featuring 16 teams.
Tripling the field did nothing to eliminate the controversy ... the new 12-team College Football Playoff format ... in the field over a fourth team from the almighty Southeastern Conference, ...
To hear SEC coaches tell it, they don’t even want this crock of a 4+4+2+2+1 auto-bid format. Here’s Sankey’s chance to denounce this auto-bid sham, resist the elitist invitatinal, and steer ...