Now, this would be fun.
As a fanbase, we can stop beating around the bush and say this: SEC Football is better than anything else in college football. If it was possible, the SEC could probably send at least three teams to the College Football Playoff every year, and it would be no worse of a product.
Alabama, Georgia, and Texas A&M all would have been worthy participants in the playoff last year, but that’s not something the fans would ever get under the current format of the college football postseason.
With college football planning to stick with the current playoff format through the 2025 season, an SEC playoff would be a fun way to add a bit more flavor to the end of football season for the schools not named Alabama and Georgia.
After SEC commissioner Greg Sankey worked with Bob Bowlsby and other commissioners to develop an expansion plan that made sense for everyone, “The Alliance” of Big 10, ACC, and Pac-12 conferences backed out at the last minute, citing “more pressing issues” at the time.
Sankey hasn’t held back in vocalizing his disappointment as the playoff expansion talks fell apart.
“People apparently didn’t take me seriously when I said we can leave it at four,” Sankey shared with the media a few weeks ago. “So I sat there watching that (Alabama-Georgia) game, thinking they just thought I wasn’t serious.”
The SEC seems to be weighing its options, and nothing is set in stone yet with so much in play. ESPN had more on this with some words from SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey.
Sankey stressed that no seismic change is imminent. But he did mention that an SEC-only playoff, in a variety of forms, was among the nearly 40 different models that SEC officials discussed at their recent meetings.
“As we think as a conference,” he said via Pete Thamel of ESPN on Monday, “it’s vitally important we think about the range of possibilities.”
Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin echoed that notion to ESPN:
“We have an incredibly strong…