(07-30-2021 01:57 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 09:43 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(07-28-2021 09:31 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  Yeah, the playoff expansion that we all thought was in place is now completely gone. We will be lucky if we even get the potential to get a team in at this point.

Sankey was on the four-person working group that created the 12-team proposal. He knew for months about UT/OU. He wants it. He gets it.

Three person committee, and Sankey was the only one who knew this was coming. I wondered at the time why the SEC came out in favor so quickly. Now we know. He figures to get three or four in from the SEC every year.

SEC fans probably figure they could get 5 in some years!

Easy compromise fix is to limit each conference to two at-large bids. (3 total teams)

That makes EVERYBODY happy except the 16 teams in the SEC, who should still be happy and smug enough with their $$$$ to STFU and compromise on that fine little point.

Three SEC teams means only two of the four first-round games can have SEC playing, and no such thing as an all-SEC final four.

This will be the compromise that carries the day.