Is Ryan Day's Proposal The Path To The SEC + Big Ten Running The Show?

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Mike and Rico continue their CFP automatic bids discussion, wondering what would happen to the format if Ryan Day got his way.

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0:00.0	Okay. Look, I'm not going to get angry, but we just see the world in different ways, I guess. I think this is an interesting topic, so I'm going to give it one more segment. Rico, I know you're into it. All these coaches clamoring for auto bids. Ryan Day did it again today. Why? And I'll tell you why. And if you disagree, I'm not here to argue with you.
0:21.7	I just want to know why you disagree.
0:24.3	It's clear what they're angling at.
0:27.6	They want to leave the NCAA.
0:29.7	They want to form their own national championship.
0:32.3	They want to kick out everybody.
0:34.5	And it'll simply be a government cheese, national cheese day,
0:39.1	version of the NFL.
0:41.7	Are you up for that?
0:43.2	Maybe that's the way the topic should go.
0:46.1	Because I'm not up for that.
0:47.6	As much as I have hated just about every decision in sports made the last five years,
0:52.3	it's still college football.
0:54.0	A lot of it is familiar enough.
0:55.8	It's a comfortable pair of shoes.
0:58.3	You do that.
1:00.2	We're done.
1:01.1	I like the fact that it allows, it should allow for teams to come out there.
1:06.5	Mike, I think the reason why your SEC and your Big Ten schools are trying to push for the automatic qualifiers,
1:14.3	they want to fail safe in case they have a season where they lose two or three games and we still get in.
1:20.3	Oh, we didn't have that grade of a season, but because we play in these two power conferences,
1:25.0	we'll still be allowed to play in.
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