MORGANTOWN — The SEC meetings started off last week, and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey made his opinions heard about the current state of the College Football Playoff and how his conference wasn’t getting the respect it deserved for how difficult the schedule is.
Sankey indirectly took shots at the Big 12 and ACC without both conferences being able to retaliate, but later in the same week, the Big 12 had their meetings. Big 12 coaches met together to discuss the transfer portal, and more importantly, the future of how the national champions will be crowned each year.
Defending Big 12 champion coach of Arizona State, Kenny Dillingham, took the podium with Kansas coach Lance Leipold to prove the conference is competitive.
Dillingham’s argument centered around the caliber of coaches in the conference. There are a lot of notable coaches, who’ve had historic careers, like TCU’s Sonny Dykes, Colorado’s Deion Sanders and Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy. Dillingham didn’t mention those names and focused on the newest coach to the Big 12 this season, West Virginia’s Rich Rodriguez.
“This league is so competitive,” Dillingham said. “How many guys in our league have won a national championship? It’s unbelievable. When you look at the [Leipold] sitting to my right, you look across, and it’s Rich Rodriguez. That’s a guy who could go into the Hall of Fame. He changed the entire game of how to play offensive football for an era. Our league is so competitive because I think the coaches in the league are phenomenal. I think we have one of the best-coached leagues out there.”
The competitiveness of the Big 12 hasn’t captured the eyes of the committee in the same way as the bigger conferences like the SEC and Big Ten, which helps Sankey’s argument. However, the Big…
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Publish date : 2025-06-02 02:36:00
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