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The modest waves crashing on Miramar Beach last week had nothing on those being churned up in the meeting rooms of a resort hotel a few yards from the sand.
When those figurative waves crest and crash, perhaps in the next few months, the complexion of college football will be transformed yet again.
The most glaring takeaway from that annual gathering of SEC coaches, administrators and league executives? More radical change looms in a sport that already has undergone a significant makeover in the post-COVID era. Think 16-game playoff, an increase from an eight- to nine-game SEC schedule, a decrease from two annual transfer-portal windows to one.
Granted, the SEC doesn’t possess the power to make all these decisions on its own, but as one of the two most powerful football leagues in the country, it has a prominent seat at the control panel.
Here’s a breakdown of the primary topics discussed and what the future most likely holds for each.
16-game playoff
Texas coach Steve Sarkisian celebrates his team’s double-overtime Peach Bowl win against Arizona State in last season’s College Football Playoff quarterfinals. [ BRYNN ANDERSON | AP ]
This is a foregone conclusion, primarily because colleges soon will be paying their athletes directly and new revenue streams (i.e. more playoff games) must be found to offset those costs.
But what the playoff will look like remains up for deliberation.
At the dawn of last week’s meetings, the league in general seemed to be embracing a model put forth by Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti that would assure both the Big Ten and SEC four automatic qualifiers, with the Big 12 and ACC getting two apiece. The highest-ranked Group of Six champion also would get a berth, with three at-large selections rounding out the field.
That format could’ve spawned the creation of playoff “play-in”…
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