College football: Why the Big Ten, SEC need to align for the sake of the sport
University football continues to change at a quick pace, but the best power brokers in sport are poorly aligned and seem to be in disagreement.
The dry thinks they are the best conference in the country and the SEC commissioner, Greg Sankey, seems to have an unshakable bravado. Big Ten also has a large ego and is not in the case of concessions to other conferences. The future of university football crosses the two conferences because they have the most influence, much more than ACC, Big 12, and beyond.
The dry and the big ten are currently making heads on the new formats offered to the playoffs of university football. The playoffs increased to 12 teams last season, but the proposals are already on the table to increase the number to 16. The two conferences have an common ground on 16 teams in the CFP in the future, but they are far from the formula to select these teams.
The SEC promotes five champions of the conference and 11 large-scale offers constituting the field of 16 while the big ten wants four automatic offers for the Big Ten and the SEC, two automatic offers for the ACC and Big 12, and one for the group of 5 best classified teams, with the rest of the area made up of at-worm teams.
“We had a different opinion that came out of fate around the concept of allowances,” said Sankey during the dry Media Day last week. “Big Ten has a different opinion. It’s good. We have a 12 team eliminatory series, five champions of the conference. This could remain if we cannot agree.”
Petitti said during the big ten media day that the model that the dry is favorable “would find it difficult to obtain the support of the big ten”.
A major difference – and that the two conferences do not want to give in to the ground – is the amount of conference games they play. Big Ten plays nine conference games, while the dry is eight.
“It is absolutely completely correct at 100% than in the SEC, we play eight conference games while others play nine conference games – have never been a secret,” said Sankey. “It is also correct that last season, the 16 members of the Southeast Conference have played at least nine games against what you label” Power Abunting “.
Sankey continued by saying that he did not believe that anyone exchange his conference calendar and his opponents with a dry conference calendar.
Penn State head coach James Franklin could be a reason in the middle of disagreements. Franklin wants things to be even in all areas, each conference playing the same number of conference games.
“The thing I am fighting with is the same thing that I have been talking about for a long time, and it doesn’t change. Everyone has to play the same number of conference games. As, it’s not that difficult, right? Everyone should play eight or everyone should play new,” said Franklin.
Sankey said that the dry would soon decide on a conference calendar extended for the 2026 season, or if they stay at eight conference matches. However, the push for uniformity seems to increase and the big tens seem to become stronger in their dry critics.
“Until there is a continuity between the conferences, if you are in Big Ten, it would make no sense to have something other than a case to have four automatic qualifications and a watershed of teams,” said the head coach of the Ohio State Ryan Day. “Because when you play nine conference games, it’s not the same thing as someone who plays eight conference games. If you are going to be compared to that, it’s just not the same.”
When it comes to a subjective process of a selection committee for the playoffs of university football concerning which does and does not make the playoffs as a large offer, it seems that the common sense of facilitating it to compare it with a conference and its programs to another. Where he becomes Dcanty is when a conference plays a different number of conference adversaries than another.
“You ask a group of people to enter a room and decide on the 12 or 16 best university football teams, and you do not compare apples with apples,” said Franklin.
If the agreements cannot be concluded, Sankey is contained in current format at 12 teams. However, regardless of the number of playoff teams – the Big Ten and the SEC should play the same number of conference games, whether eight or new.
University football and its future will take place, because the Big Ten and the dry will see it, so quarrels and homerir in each conference are counter-intuitive health and long-term pulse of sport. The sooner they start to align themselves and achieve consensus on key issues, whether it is the conference planning, the format of the playoffs, and beyond, the better.
