A Screw Up by the Big 12 on the College Football Playoff: Did the SEC Get it Right?!
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
While the Big 12 Conference is trying to gain access, is it doing it at the expense of the greatness that is college football? Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo explains why he HATES that he has to agree with the SEC here, but he does.
Also, Mundo dives into recent comments by a current, and a former, Big 12 coach, and why one made himself look good, and another did not.
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| 0:00.0 | I have zero interest in admitting when the SEC is right. |
| 0:04.0 | I really don't. |
| 0:04.9 | But the SEC just might be right about what's going on right now with the college football playoff. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:12.8 | We're Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:14.3 | We appreciate you joining us as always as a part of the show. |
| 0:19.0 | And the motivations for everybody is very obvious. |
| 0:22.2 | Everybody is looking out for themselves. |
| 0:25.3 | But my question is this. |
| 0:28.1 | Who's looking out for the sport of college football? |
| 0:31.0 | By the way, please like the video. |
| 0:32.3 | Make sure you are subscribed to the channel if you are a college football fan |
| 0:36.2 | or, you know, especially a big ball fan. |
| 0:38.0 | That is our bread and butter. |
| 0:38.9 | But this conversation right now is about the nonstop ongoing conversation around the college |
| 0:46.7 | football playoff and whether or not expansion is inevitable to 16 teams or potentially 24 teams. |
| 0:55.4 | I don't like any of it, even though I know the best thing for the Big 12 is probably to figure |
| 1:02.0 | out how to get access to 24 teams because that gives the Big 12 a better chance to get |
| 1:08.1 | more teams into the college football playoff. |
| 1:10.5 | Now, that being the case, we talked about this week or two ago. |
| 1:15.4 | And my conversation was around how just maybe the Big 12 benefits from a 24 team college |
| 1:22.4 | football playoff, but the sport of college football does not. |
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