ESPN Is STILL Protecting The SEC... The Big Ten Should Be FURIOUS
About this episode
The episode discusses ESPN's perceived favoritism towards the SEC over the Big Ten, coaching debates, and hot seat predictions in college football.
Is ESPN giving the SEC preferential treatment? That's the debate in today's Locked On Hoosiers crossover with Locked On Nittany Lions host Zach Seyko. The newest ESPN FPI rankings sparked major conversation across college football, with several SEC teams receiving lofty projections while many Big Ten programs—including Indiana—were left lower than expected. Are these rankings simply analytics? Or is ESPN's television partnership with the SEC influencing the national narrative? Jacob Goins and Zach Seyko break down why many Big Ten fans believe the conference doesn't receive the same promotion as the SEC, discuss whether Fox, CBS, and NBC should do more to market Big Ten football, and debate whether preseason rankings have become more about television than football. The conversation also shifts to one of college football's hottest coaching debates: Is Oregon head coach Dan Lanning becoming the next James Franklin? The guys explain why they disagree with that comparison, examine Lanning's success at Oregon, and discuss what separates elite coaches from very good ones. Finally, they go around college football with rapid-fire hot seat predictions, including Mike Norvell, Lincoln…
People in this episode
Host: Jacob Goins
Guest: Zach Seyko
Topics covered
- ESPN FPI rankings
- SEC vs Big Ten media bias
- college football coaching debates
- preseason rankings
- Big Ten promotion
- hot seat predictions
Keywords
- ESPN
- SEC
- Big Ten
- college football
- Dan Lanning
- James Franklin
- coaching debates
- hot seat predictions
- FPI rankings
- media bias
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ESPN, SEC, Big Ten, Fox, CBS, NBC
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