Alabama football QB Bryce Young, LB Will Anderson Jr. and DB Jordan Battle at SEC Media Days 2022
Alabama football players: Bryce Young, Will Anderson Jr. and Jordan Battle at SEC Media Days 2022.
Derrian Carter, The Tuscaloosa News
Greg Sankey knows how to rub it in.
No one seems to be enjoying the demise of the kumbaya between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12, known as the Alliance, more than the man whom this group united to oppose.
“What was it called? The Alliance?” Sankey, the SEC commissioner, said with a smirk Monday on the SEC Network.
RIP, Alliance.
The Alliance was a farce from the start, and it became a misnomer. The Big Ten operated behind the smokescreen to plunder Southern Cal and UCLA from its “ally,” the Pac-12.
The ACC and Pac-12 deserve mockery after the Big Ten hoodwinked them in a union that foolishly rebuffed the 12-team playoff expansion proposal Sankey helped craft.
Once the guffaws end, though, Sankey will face an important question regarding the future of college football’s postseason:
Will the SEC stomach a playoff format that ensures automatic qualification for several conference champions, or will Sankey demand a format featuring the SEC’s preference for bids to be assigned exclusively via at-large selection?
Sankey tipped his hand this week when he questioned why conference champions should deserve automatic qualification.
“I’d be fine with no AQs,” Sankey said, using an industry moniker for automatic qualifiers, “whether it’s four like we have now – a model that’s worked – eight (or) 12.”
Any playoff format that doesn’t award AQs would be a boon for the SEC and Big Ten. In a playoff where bids are awarded solely via at-large selection, those two growing superpowers would gobble up a majority of the spots, while teams in inferior conferences fought for scraps.
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