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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

SEC & BIG 10 partner to take control of CFB

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The SEC and BIG 10 announced a joint partnership to address issues within College Football and McElroy is here to help explain it all. Will either conference be aggressive in future expansion? Will Notre Dame be forced to join a conference sooner rather than later? What is the future of the 12 team College Football Playoff (and automatic qualifiers) and so much more. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I know is it going to be in 2035 is it going to be in 2045 or is it going to be in 2025

0:16.7

Hello welcome in It's a Monday edition of Always College Football. Today is Monday, February 5th. We are six days away from the Super Bowl. We're very

0:20.6

excited about that, but we here on always college football are going to focus on college football. We had some news

0:27.6

A little bit of fries that Friday news dump some of you might have missed it. I'm sure you didn't if you're as into the sport as we are.

0:35.0

When you see Big Ten and SEC, you see the words Alliance, you see the words partnership, you see words like that, that's going to move the needle.

0:45.6

I spent the whole weekend reading up on this, drawing conclusions from it.

0:48.9

What does it mean for the future?

0:50.5

What does it mean for the present?

0:52.0

How will this affect the college football playoff?

0:54.7

How will this affect scheduling alliances?

0:58.0

I thought about this from every possible angle over the last 72 hours, so we're going to help break it down today. There's a lot of thoughts on this too.

1:06.9

Reasons why you should be excited. Reasons why you should be concerned.

1:10.8

Reasons why if you're on the outside looking in I'd be really concerned

1:14.4

reasons why if you are in the college football playoff and you're hoping to have a seat at the table in the future

1:19.8

why this might not be good for you but you're probably going to be benefited by having quality leadership at the top of the sport

1:28.9

Because right now the NCAA has no power and the NCAA has done hardly anything in getting us where we need to go.

1:36.4

So the SEC and the big ten have said, you know what, take a seat, we're going to steer this thing

1:41.0

where we need it to go because we know what's in the best interest of college

1:44.4

football in the long term. You might not like that, but I really think that there are positives and

1:49.7

negatives that could come from this partnership between the Big Ten and the SEC.

1:55.0

So we will break it all down for you right here on a Monday edition of Always College

1:59.9

Football.

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