AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — At about 5 p.m. on Monday, just as annual ACC spring meetings began here on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, a Pennsylvania congressman made a splash.
Rep. Brendan Boyle opened his social media account, typed out a message and sent into the ether a sizzling shot at the SEC and Big Ten for their attempt to manipulate the future of the College Football Playoff format.
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“The next time the Big Ten or SEC wants to meet with me about NIL, they need to be prepared to first explain to me how they justify trying to rig the CFP,” Boyle tweeted.
He added one more word — a hashtag — at the end of the message: Greed.
There is a litany of prevailing issues festering within the college sports industry. The unresolved antitrust settlement that would usher in athlete revenue-sharing; a presidential commission exploring college sports; and a battle over NCAA governance, just to name a few.
But another looms: The fight over the future of the football postseason — the industry’s most valuable product.
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That fight, it appears, is getting messy.
Negotiations among the four power conference commissioners — they have started meeting separately from other CFP leaders — have produced disagreement. Discord lingers over the amount of automatic qualifiers designated for each conference.
In fact, from ACC spring meetings, conference executives discussed postseason format with their athletic directors and their coaches, sharing with them the latest negotiations between the Big 12, ACC, Big Ten and SEC. And though most here declined to reveal specifics, they did share their opinion on a 16-team playoff proposal from the SEC and Big Ten that would award each of those two conferences twice as many automatic qualifiers (4) as the Big 12 and ACC (2).
“No one likes it,” says one athletic…
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Author : Ross Dellenger
Publish date : 2025-05-14 16:28:00
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