Greg Sankey enjoys philosophical musings. I wonder whether the SEC commissioner knows this one: You slurp what you crumble.
Or, what about this one? Self-made problems become the toughest to solve.
Sankey wants to reconfigure the 12-team College Football Playoff, which he helped create, after just one season.
Sankey’s modification wish list includes stripping away protection of first-round playoff byes for conference champions.
In such a universe, first-round byes would go to the top four teams in the final College Football Playoff committee rankings, with no built-in protections for conference champions. In theory, then, all four byes could go to teams from the same conference – say, Sankey’s SEC.
Sankey says this change became necessary because conference affiliation no longer looks how it did when commissioners, including Sankey, devised the 12-team playoff format.
Hmm, I wonder why conference alignment changed.
Ah, yes, it changed after Sankey steered the SEC’s plunder of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12’s top brands. The SEC’s heist started the realignment carousel’s ignition, and then the Big Ten sprang into action and raided the west coast. In turn, the Big 12 and ACC shopped the Pac-12’s discount rack, and that conference became an unrecognizable husk.
“It’s not the same reality that existed when the…
