The SEC Commissioner Greg Saney wants a nine-game conference plan with CFP guarantees

The SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is now in favor of a conference plan with nine games with “One Cait: An extended conference plan should not have an impact on the chances of the SEC teams in the college football playoff,” said Ehsan Kassim today. While Sankey said “privately said support for a conference plan of nine games behind the scenes”, he confirmed yesterday during a appearance in the “Paulinbaum Show” that the way the conference on the college football playoff was “extended to nine games”. The decision to expand to nine games from the current eight could “be due to whether the SEC and Big Ten receive guaranteed playoff bids in a new CFP format”. The potential idea of ​​a 14-team playoff field, in which both conferences would receive four guaranteed offers, “received a lot of setback”. Saney described the “bids” as “assignments”. He admitted that the idea “received significant criticism” and said that “no decision is imminent” (USA Today, 3/3). Seth Emerson from The Athletic noticed Sankey “prefers Games of 'High Interest' in general” and “said disappointed at Nebraska, who recently canceled a series with Tennessee and Wake Forest to cancel a future game with Ole Miss” ((((((((((The sporty, 3/3).

Increase the competition: Michael Casagrande from Al.com wrote Univ. From Alabama ad Greg Byrne was “diplomatic” when he was asked whether the automatic qualification “was a must for the Sec to switch to nine games”. Byrne said: “There is a way to reach nine. We will see if it makes sense for the conference as a whole. “Casagrande wrote decisions like this” are not as easy as Playoff mathematics. ” There is “the question of the value for season ticket holders who are increasingly paying for the right to take part in games.” Making a “low-interest” non-conference game against an FCS or an FBS team at a lower level in favor of another SEC game would “convey added value for the packages with spike prices around the league and nation”. Casagrande: “Will there be the desire to play so many top -class, highly intensive regular seasonal games without a relative break offering a lower visitor at a lower level?” ((Al.com, 3/3).

Hurdle: Russo & Vannini from The Athletic wrote the “forced transformation of the college football playoff in an invitation” is not inevitable “, since there are” several possible obstacles that could go beyond the objections of their colleagues “. An expansion of the post -season to automatic commandments could “take legal and political examination -to be accompanied by already increasing public setbacks” if the two conferences “try to force them through a new format”. It is “difficult to assess how much appetite is within the group to submit complaints against each other.” However, it is almost irrelevant whether a legal contestation of the CFP agreement between the conferences would ultimately be successful, since the “simple submission of a lawsuit in a receptive home court could be sufficient to reduce the process and create CFP stagnation and uncertainty”. College sports director also do not want to “risk alienating the federal legislator. Sankey and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petiti were “among the many lobbying in Washington for a law that enables NCAA and conferences to effectively regulate college sports” (“((((((The sporty, 3/3).