The SEC threatened to go it alone. Nobody really believed it. They're the strongest conference but they're also very regional and they need the other conferences otherwise they risk becoming the NASCAR of college football.
I don't think anything gets resolved on this until 2025. One thing I'm pretty confident in is that ESPN will lose their exclusive rights to the playoffs. Also pretty confident it will be a 12 team playoff. Beyond that, hard to say how the negotiations will shake out.
My feeling is everyone will do it the way the SEC and B1G want and no one else will have a say. If it goes to 12 teams they will say those 2 conferences get 10 spots and everyone else gets 2. That was my point. They said they were coming to the table to expand it and willing to be an "equal" to the rest, moreover continue the same management and structure as it has now.
But I took what they said in Jan/Feb was, we tried. Next time we might not negotiate. We might do our own thing, or you might be forced to accept what we want.
As far as anti trust etc. And calling it a National champion. They will just treat everyone outside their chosen conference/s like they treat the G5 now. The top 1 or 2 get in IF they are high enough, then manipulate the media and rankings to their liking every year.
If you guys think its not going to be something like the Power 2, the Intermediate 1, 2 or 3 (whatever we end up with) and the Group of 5, by 2025 you arent paying attention.
