The college football landscape is in unprecedented territory, as the transfer portal, NIL, conference realignment and TV media rights deals continue to make their way in the sport.
Fans, pundits and coaches alike have mentioned a potential college football commissioner giving the sport a more unified order with all the recent changes. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said that, after some thought, he couldn’t disagree more.
“I’ve studied it a little bit and I come back to, I don’t want to dumb down the Southeastern Conference to be a part of some super league notion with 70 teams that some people speculate would happen,” Sankey said on the “Triple Option podcast,” hosted by Urban Meyer and Mark Ingram. “They want to be us and that’s on them to figure it out, not on me to bring myself back to earth.”
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The comments come on the heels of a group of administrators and backers pitching the idea of a college football super league — or “College Student Football League,” in this instance.
The proposal would be only for football and would reorganize the 136-team FBS into two conferences, with the super conference including the top 72 teams, comprised of mostly Power Four programs. The conference would divide teams into 12 divisions based on geography, calling it the Power 12, while the remaining schools not included would compete in the Group of 8.
The SEC, which currently has a clear advantage as the top football conference in college football — with four of the top five ranked teams nationally in the US LBM Coaches Poll — of course backs the current setup with its new ESPN media rights deal and strong conglomeration of college sports brands.
“I think there’s probably more of that [commissioner] possibility happening now…
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Author : The Tennessean
Publish date : 2024-10-03 18:03:05
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