SEC SQUAD - The SEC may BREAKAWAY from the NCAA | How this affects Tennessee

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

SEC and Big Ten eye seismic shift—could college football’s future leave the NCAA behind? As rumors intensify about a possible breakaway, the SEC Squad dissects the rising power struggle, looming super conferences, and the staggering revenue gaps shaping the landscape. With Texas, Ohio State, Alabama, and Georgia dominating NIL deals, is traditional college sports on borrowed time? Debates heat up around potential salary caps, third-party NIL chaos, and the fierce push for a 24-team College Football Playoff. The squad weighs the impact of playoff expansion, threats to bowl games, and the economic bonanza of home-field playoff matches for towns like Fayetteville and Oxford. Will the SEC champion football’s next era, or does media rights wrangling put true change out of reach? Tune in for instant reactions to every high-stakes development across SEC territory.

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0:00.0	Are we getting closer to the SEC and Big Ten breaking away from the NCAA?
0:05.1	It's time to get the squad together.
0:06.5	You're talking ball with the SEC squad.
0:09.7	From Alabama to Tennessee, from Georgia to Oklahoma, from Auburn to Texas.
0:15.2	It's the local experts of the Locked-on Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview
0:22.1	of the upcoming SEC weekend.
0:24.6	It's the SEC Squad, and we have a seat for you.
0:28.4	Perk feelings and thin skin are prohibited.
0:31.4	Squad up, you're part of the SEC Squad.
0:35.6	What's up, everybody, welcome into the SEC Squad. Sit back, grab your favorite beverage and join us as we get you ready for another week, talking to all things SEC. This is our SEC squad. Let's welcome in our group this week. We got Stephen Willis from Locked on Ole Miss, John Neighbors, from Locked on Razorbacks, Jay Smith, Locked Sooners. Corey Burton, locked on Vandy.
0:55.2	I'm Chris Gordy from Lock on SEC.
0:57.7	And guys, conversations about an SEC Big Ten breakaway from the NCAA, according to multiple
1:04.2	reports are more real now than they've ever been.
1:07.6	Greg Sankey has long stressed that a breakaway would not solve all the problems,
1:12.2	but there are limits. And he said the frustration level is building. So as you guys see all
1:18.3	the problems and everything that's popping up around college sports, do you think we're
1:23.8	close to the SEC and Big Ten going, you know what? We're going to take our ball and go home.
1:34.0	I don't think we are. I think for 10 close to the SEC and Big Ten going, you know what? We're going to take our ball and go home. I don't think we are. I think for 10 years, the SEC and the Big Ten has made this threat over and over again to try and get their way and everybody kind of bought into it.
1:39.7	And now we're getting to the point. We'll talk about it probably a little bit later on. This is
1:44.0	kind of feeling like the boy who cried Wolf at the end. And eventually there somebody's going to say, okay, if you are going to leave, leave, do it. And they're going, oh, no, my bad. I'm just kidding. We're just trying to change things for the better. Yaddy, yaddy and i i don't believe they will actually
2:02.0	break away until they do at this point to be honest go ahead no question john i was going to say that
2:08.2	i think that there are like reasons that they will and i just don't know if it's like intimate like
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