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MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — It was only matter of time before this inevitable arrived.
The desperate lash out, the defeated try anything. But not this time, not in this specific situation.
“I don’t need lectures from others about the good of the game,” says SEC commissioner Greg Sankey.
Especially when, in his mind, he’s the one who has been working to save the ACC and Big 12’s hide all along.
He was the one who not long ago convinced his presidents in the SEC that the College Football Playoff (not an SEC playoff) was in the best interest of college football ― even thought many of those presidents were unsure of CFP expansion in the first place.
And since he’s the one who, along with new working partner commissioner Tony Petitti of the Big Ten, was given all the power in the CFP by everyone else in the process ― including the Big 12 and ACC commissioners now complaining about it.
So poking the bear probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do.
But here we are, with the CFP is on the verge of a 16-team format beginning in 2026, and the desperate have decided to speak up. Commissioners of the ACC and Big 12, whose leagues won’t get similar access – and more to the point, similar revenue – to that of the SEC and Big Ten, made statements to CBS Sports last week that looked eerily coordinated.
Both said, in part, that the “best interest of the sport” is at the forefront of every decision each has made relative to the CFP.
That didn’t sit well with the guy who asked by the CFP board of directors to build the first 12-team playoff, then watched as petty politics delayed it for months. Apparently, the ACC’s part in the…
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