SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey was part of the subgroup that created the 12-team model approved last fallDenny Simmons/USA TODAY NETWORK
College football’s power brokers on Wednesday “will meet again to work through the remaining unresolved issues of the 12-team College Football Playoff" before the expanded format arrives next season, according to Auerbach & Vannini of THE ATHLETIC. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey has “been vocal in recent weeks about his desire for CFP leadership to re-examine the previously agreed-upon 12-team model.” Sankey was also “part of the subgroup that created the 12-team model approved last fall.” Despite all the poaching of conference members that has taken place over the past three years, those in the room “expect this week’s meeting to be cordial.” There is “too much at stake for it not to be.” Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff “will be in attendance Wednesday, despite the future of his conference being in flux.” But it is “hard to imagine that Kliavkoff will play a significant role in conversations about the future of the 12-team CFP.” Feelings about reexamining the expanded CFP format are “somewhat mixed, including private pushback to the idea, floated by Sankey and others in the SEC, of simply taking the 12 highest-ranked teams instead of designating spots for conference champions” (THE ATHLETIC, 8/28).
DO YOUR JOB: CBSSN’s Brian Jones said to earn a spot in the CFP, teams need to “win the opener, win your home games, beat your rivals and win conferences. As today’s landscape is laid out, that puts you on perfect footing to get to the CFP.” CBSSN’s Kevin Carter said it “doesn’t matter what conference you’re in, you have to start with winning that conference.” Carter: “One of the stipulations on the College Football Playoff web site says ‘championships won,’ so that is one of their main criteria.” Jones: “Unfortunately, they haven’t always lived up to it.” But CBSSN’s Randy Cross said, “If you’re the Pac-12 you’re stacked up against it” (“Inside College Football,” CBSSN, 8/25).
