McElroy & Finebaum talk SEC & BIG 10’s TAKEOVER of the CFP | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The B10 and SEC are pushing toward a 14 team playoff with automatic qualifiers, is it a hostile takeover by the two biggest conferences or an overreaction to something that we have seen coming. McElroy and Finebaum break down what it means for the SEC and BIG 10, if Sankey and Petitti owe ANYTHING to all of college football and what it means for Notre Dame the ACC and BIG 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. I think everybody acts like this, you know, the SEC and the Big Ten,
0:35.8	you know, are in bulldozers mowing down college football.
0:38.5	They're not.
0:39.7	They've already moved away from everyone else.
0:42.1	This is not a surprise, nor is it breaking news.
0:49.0	Hello and welcome to always college football.
0:51.5	I'm your host, Greg McElroy, and today is Wednesday, February 19th, and we appreciate you being with us here today. We know we weren't with you on Monday. We apologize. It was President's Day. We had moving parts all over the place. And we were actually originally going to take the whole week off. But there has been a very hot topic going on right now in college football.
1:13.3	And it is the conversation centering around the college football playoffs.
1:18.6	So we will dedicate an entire show to it.
1:22.5	All the tentacles.
1:24.2	We're going to, one, explain exactly what's going on. That's what we're going to start with. We're going to explain exactly what's going on and what it might mean for your team, your conference, and what if you're an ACC team should you be rooting for? We also will explain why it's looking like the SEC and the Big Ten are going to get exactly
1:48.5	what they want and why that might not be in the best interest of the sport long term.
1:55.0	We also are going to explain a way to utilize the automatic qualifier system
2:04.1	to make the college football playoff actually smaller
2:09.7	while making sure the net is still cast really wide
2:13.2	with 16 teams that are capable of winning a national championship. Then we're going to address
2:19.6	some of your comments on the subject matter. We've gone through the internet and we've looked
2:24.3	at people's comments and some of their takeaways from some of the stories that have been
2:28.3	written. We get those. We respond to some of those. And then finally, we'll have Paul Feinbaum on to help us understand
2:37.3	what this means for the sport, why this is a good thing for the sport, a bad thing for the sport,
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