From: don.p.del.grande@gmail.com   
      
   > Looks like since Washington State was the Pac-12 team with a representative   
   on the committee that designed the playoffs, they aren't going to budge from a   
   6/6 auto/at-large split to a 5/7 auto/at-large split. Result? Looks like the   
   Big Ten and SEC    
   might break away and stage their own playoffs without anybody else.   
      
   Source of this "proposed breakaway"? Not that it's never going to happen - I   
   think everybody here agrees that, eventually, college football breaks away   
   from the NCAA, mainly because it pretty much has to - but the SEC and Big Ten   
   aren't quite big enough    
   yet to pull this off.   
   Keep in mind that the rest of the FBS schools can stop that by changing the   
   NCAA Bylaws to prevent a playoff that is not supported by at least three   
   conferences. and you try telling Penn State's wrestling, LSU's women's   
   gymnastics, and pretty much all of    
   the Big Ten's men's (and a number of women's) ice hockey programs that they're   
   no longer eligible to compete for a national championship because the   
   conference's football programs threw a hissy fit.   
      
   Meanwhile, how likely is it that the Pac-whatever champion is going to be   
   ranked higher than the second-highest conference champion of the Group of 5   
   conferences?   
      
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