MisterGopher
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The SEC and Big Ten have made stunning moves over the past five years to dramatically mold college football into their preferred image.
What they can’t do is control the human condition on the College Football Playoff selection committee.
And that may just lead to more stunning moves from the SEC to change the sport forever.
Because the day the runner-up of the SEC isn’t selected to the CFP, is the day the SEC walks out of the entire process.
You want a nightmare scenario for the SEC, and the rest of college football, by proxy? Here it is:
No. 10 Alabama beats Auburn, advances to the SEC championship game, loses to either No. 3 Texas A&M or No. 4 Georgia (which it already beat this season, in Athens), and drops out of the 12-team CFP.
Behind Notre Dame, which lost to Texas A&M at home. Behind Miami, which won’t even have played in its conference championship game — much less, the ACC championship game.
Because if the nightmare scenario of the SEC runner-up missing the CFP unfolds, all options are on the table.
Including the SEC taking their ball and going home.
The SEC and Big Ten have made stunning moves over the past five years to dramatically mold college football into their preferred image.
What they can’t do is control the human condition on the College Football Playoff selection committee.
And that may just lead to more stunning moves from the SEC to change the sport forever.
Because the day the runner-up of the SEC isn’t selected to the CFP, is the day the SEC walks out of the entire process.
You want a nightmare scenario for the SEC, and the rest of college football, by proxy? Here it is:
No. 10 Alabama beats Auburn, advances to the SEC championship game, loses to either No. 3 Texas A&M or No. 4 Georgia (which it already beat this season, in Athens), and drops out of the 12-team CFP.
Behind Notre Dame, which lost to Texas A&M at home. Behind Miami, which won’t even have played in its conference championship game — much less, the ACC championship game.
Because if the nightmare scenario of the SEC runner-up missing the CFP unfolds, all options are on the table.
Including the SEC taking their ball and going home.
