MORGANTOWN — There has been a lot of action in the past couple of days in college football regarding the future formats for the College Football Playoff.
The athletic directors and conference have been meeting to change and review last year’s controversial system that saw the four highest-ranked conference champions receive the top four seeds. This created lopsided matchups because two of the four highest-ranked conference champions weren’t better than their competitors.
Last week, this system received a hot fix. The conferences agreed that just the highest-ranked teams would receive the top four seeds, with the five conference champions still getting automatic bids.
This wasn’t enough for SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, though. At the start of this week were the SEC meetings with coaches and athletic directors. Sankey and SEC coaches reportedly favor a five-plus-11 model, making the 12-team playoff 16 teams. Five teams would receive automatic qualifiers from either winning a conference championship or being ranked highly.
This change comes to allow more SEC teams into the tournament and allows a nine-game SEC schedule.
Sankey and the rest of the SEC don’t believe the other conferences play as difficult a schedule, which hurts their postseason chances, because they believe the committee favors fewer losses than quality wins.
The SEC commissioner then took a shot at the Big 12 and ACC, two of the conferences on the outside looking in. Sankey said the other conferences released press releases questioning his “love of the game,” per ESPN’s Pete Thamel, but it simply wasn’t true. The Big 12 didn’t release anything and the conference commented on how it was false.
Sankey and the SEC are starting to drive a wedge between themselves and the other conferences…
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Publish date : 2025-05-29 02:34:00
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