Hey, everyone back to power.

Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Power Hour, Athletics, Tuesday National College Football

podcast hosted by yours truly Nicole Auerbach. And I'm joined by my friend and colleague

Michael Felder from Stadium to break down the biggest storylines in college sports this week in

an hour or less. And Feltter, this one's a pretty obvious one. There's one major story right now. Yeah, one huge story. I will say this before we start. Sorry to OU fans, not my best performance. I'm excited to like, listen, I spent the entire week watching Oklahoma's defense and I'm excited for Winfrey, for Thomas for Redmond. They are right. This group is exciting.

They do what Grinch likes to do, which is move pre-snap and post-snap, and they're going to find ways to get to the quarterback. So I wanted to make that right, make good, make them whole. Also for when we get to the last call, I did write a poem. So we have that to look forward to. Okay. So we will have some follow-up from some of the takes that we've had previously.

Well, let's- So we have that to look forward to. Okay. So we will have some follow up from some of the takes that we've had previously.

But let's get to the news.

But let's get to the news.

So on Tuesday, the Big Ten, Pact 12, and ACC officially announced their alliance.

They're calling it that too.

So no one has an official name for this, but we're all kind of doing the alliance in

capital letters for now, I guess. And they announced it to a lot of fanfare. There was a Zoom

with all three very, very new commissioners, George Codavkov, Kevin Warren, Jim Phillips.

And they talked about,

in very broad terms, what this alliance is about. So, you know, a couple of the prongs of that,

we knew. You know, I've been reporting on this for a couple weeks now. We knew that they were going to try to stay aligned on policy and governance issues.

The NCAA is in the process of being decentralized, and everyone's sort of wondering what that next iteration of, you know, a governing body for college sports looks like.

So they want to be aligned and work on that and preserve aspects of the collegiate model.

They also are going to be aligned on college on that and preserve aspects of the collegiate model.

They also are going to be aligned on college football playoff expansion.

And we can get into this in a second, but there's two aspects of that. One is the format, the 12 team proposal.

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