Plenty has changed since the college football playoff proposal was proposed in June. Oklahoma and Texas are headed to the SEC. The Big 12 may end up more Group of 5 than Power 5.
If the Big 10, ACC, and Pac 12 have have sense, they’ll pump the breaks on the playoff proposal and start making amendments to the current proposal. There are a lot of issues with the current proposal now, as CBSSportsline details. It has become a proposal that heavily favors the SEC, and that concerns the rest of the country.
From the CBSSportsline article…
In devastating the Big 12 to the point it has lost 50% to 75% of its value, the SEC enhanced its power, leverage and earning potential to the point some college leaders fear the conference could earn six of the 12 available playoff spots in the proposed expansion.
“With 12 teams, we could just be watching a lot of SEC teams in the 12-team playoff,” a highly-placed Power Five source told CBS Sports.
One Power Five AD added: “Why on God’s green Earth would the Pac-12 and Big Ten hand over these [playoff] rights, which only strengthens the SEC?”
If I’m the rest of the country, the first thing I do is create auto-bids for the Power 4, as the top 4 seeds. I’m still in favor of qualifying the conference champ as a top 12 or top 15 team. That would ensure a level of equity for the other 3 Power 4 conferences to the SEC.
I may look at the 8 team playoff again with the Power 4 conference champs + 3 wild cards and the top Group 6 team. Though that could be tough to roll back from the proposed 12.
This is also important from the CBSSports article.
With so much happening, more and more administrators in power are now asking: Why wouldn’t the CFP wait and go on the open market to maximize the value of product after the 2025 season? That’s when the current deal with ESPN ends. ESPN has exclusive negotiating rights with the CFP until then.
That seems like a no brainer. Who wants to negotiate with conference realignment in flux? Sankey’s move virtually guarantees that the playoff changes will not happen prior to 2025.’
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