SEC meets at a crossroads — and its grip on college football is at stake
Inside the SEC’s most consequential spring meetings — and what’s on the line.
They arrive at Destin every year on the heels of Memorial Day weekend, the power brokers of the most popular conference in college sports typically hanging out for some fun and sun during a semi-working trip to Florida’s panhandle. But not this time around. Not with so much at stake , and the clock ticking on defining decisions.
This is shaping up to be the most consequential spring meetings in the history of the SEC. So much on the table, so many different ideas and opinions. So much uncertainty.
Sports Seriously CFB Show: Brendan Sorsby betting 'just tip of the iceberg. ' Our experts dissect scandal And hanging over the entire week’s proceedings is the reality the Big Ten has become a significant threat. For the SEC’s 20-year perch atop the college football world, and more important, for future revenue generation.
There are fractures within the SEC about what to do with the iconic SEC championship game , and where to go with potential expansion of the College Football Playoff . Coaches want CFP expansion , especially after the SEC moved to nine conference games for future media rights leverage, and with the idea that moving to nine games would extend the CFP format to 16 teams. But now that the Big Ten wants 24 teams — and the SEC hasn't shown any proclivity to move off 16 teams — SEC coaches feel as though they were duped into agreeing to a nine-game schedule.