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Oh Oh, looks like Sankey Is Setting Himself Up As The CFB PO Savior, Leaving Tony Petitti Out To Dry?

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Posted by Jon Joseph:

 

Not So Fast! It looks like the SEC is ready to hand Tony Petitti a B1G in-your-face.

 

The SEC, at the end of its spring meetings, made certain to let everyone know that the 8 regular-season games in the SEC Just Mean More. For the first time (RIGHT?) Greg Sankey found enlightenment. 6 SEC teams in the Committee's top 16 last season, including 3-loss Bama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina, would have made a 16-team PO field. Thank goodness someone brought this to Greg's attention.

 

On the field, a 4-loss Michigan team with many starters sitting out defeated an all-hands-on-deck Bama team in its bowl game. Ditto for 3-loss Illinois taking out 3-loss South Carolina. Nothing to see here, move right along.

 

S(ec)SDD. We're the best, we only need to play 8 regular-season games to prove it. The Committee? The Committee's spot-on rankings were negated by the field only having 12 teams. We need a 16-team PO!

 

We trust the Committee will continue to recognize that our teams' 3 losses are superior to 2 losses everywhere else. We have paid attention to our friends in the ACC and the B12. Five conference champions and 11 at-large teams is the PO format we need; it's the Fairer Way, No Doubt!

 

I never fell for the B1G/SEC detente. You could SEC this possible rope-a-dope coming from as far away as Minneapolis is from Destin, Florida, site of the SEC's annual beach retreat.

 

The Michigan at Oklahoma Week 2 game will kick off at 7:30 EST on ABC. Disney does all it can to aid its SEC partner, while Fox is a B1G Mickey Mouse. However, Fox agreed to move the Texas/ Ohio State game to 7:30 Sunday night of Week 1 instead of Noon on Saturday.

 

Texas vetoed the game time move. The Texas athletic director noted that it would give Texas a short week before its next game and that on Sunday, he goes to church. 

 

The Longhorns' Week 2 opponent? San Jose State. 🤬

 

We'll see how this plays out, but I expect the SEC will stay at 8 regular season games, and that a possible B1G vs. SEC football challenge was just part of the S(ec)ucker Punch.

 

This could be B1G.

 

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SEC commissioner Greg Sankey addressed a report that the Big Ten wants the SEC to move to a nine-game conference slate.

 

The B1G, supposedly, would consider a PO format of 5-11, the 5 highest ranked conference champs are in the field and seeded as ranked with 11 at-large teams, IF the SEC agrees to play nine regular season games.

 

This makes sense. 8 regular-season games allow SEC teams to schedule their way out of a loss. Not every team in the SEC does this. Florida plays Miami and FSU OOC in 2025. In 2024, UGA played Clemson and Georgia Tech.

 

LSU opens the season on the road at Clemson. The other OOC games are in Baton Rouge against LA Tech, Southeast Louisiana, and Western Kentucky. The W KY game will be played on the penultimate Saturday of the regular season, when B1G teams will be playing a conference opponent. Playing Purdue is more difficult than playing W KY. Especially if West Coast teams have to travel to Purdue.

 

In addition to nine regular-season games, the majority of B1G teams play a P4 opponent OOC. However, Ohio State played 3 G5 opponents OOC last season, and Michigan did the same in 2023. In 2025, Penn State has three cupcakes scheduled OOC, including FCS Villanova. (And then takes a week off before OBD comes to town 🤔)

 

(The B1G is not terribly concerned about the ACC playing eight regular-season games. 😁)

 

The six SEC teams that finished in the committee's top 16 in 2024, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina, could have had one additional conference game loss. And in theory, No. 8 Indiana could have played Valpariso instead of Ohio State to finish 11-1. Not ranked in the top 16, Illinois, could have avoided a trip to Eugene with a game against Eastern Illinois, and be in the playoff with a record of 10-2. 

 

It will be interesting to see how the future PO format unfolds.

 

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SEC Coaches Push Back? Spare Me!

 

 

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After pushback from SEC coaches on a model that would guarantee four automatic bids for the SEC and Big Ten, the 5+11 format may now be favored. But that would put the SEC at odds...

 

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High stakes chess?

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ES(ec)PN asks whether a 5-11 PO format will help an 8-game regular season SEC?

 

 

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The debate about the future format of the CFP is raging. Particularly, how it hurts or helps the biggest leagues.

 

More 'It Just Means More' propaganda.

 

Paul Newman - 'If you're playing a poker game and look around the table and can't see who the sucker is, it's you.'

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CBS Chimes In.

 

 

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Commissioner Greg Sankey said two years ago he was hoping to land the plane on a decision

 

The ADs and the Coaches were not on the same PO format and scheduling page, and the ADs didn't know this before gathering in Florida? 🤔

 

Come On Man! 

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Coach Bielema asked for the SEC #s, and CBS delivered.

 

 

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Crunching the numbers on just how good the SEC has been in recent years

 

It's a small sample size since NIL and largely unregulated transfers, but it appears that the B1G is closing the on-field results gap.

 

Why the need for Sankey to beat this drum over and over again? What's the point?

 

I guess, 'We'll play 8 conference games and the PO committee should put at least 6 SEC teams in the field every year." 

 

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