From: james.m.gibson@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 11:35:39 AM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:   
   > > 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.    
      
   Yahoo article.  But what stops the SEC and Big Ten from making their own new   
   NCAA with all these other sports?  Now that UCLA, USC, Washington, and Oregon   
   are in the Big Ten, and Oklahoma and Texas are in the SEC, which schools are   
   they going to miss?     
   The Big Ten can still run their own ice hockey league, and are they really   
   worried about all the D3 schools that have D1 ice hockey programs and not   
   being part of that?  Plus, the newly formed SEC/Big Ten alliance could invite   
   whatever schools they    
   wanted from the ACC or Big 12.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   First one is most likely from the American (although it wasn't this year).    
   With Oregon State and Washington State forming a football allegiance with the   
   Mountain West, that one is actually the most likely for a second team,   
   although again wouldn't have    
   been this year.   
      
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