Lane Kiffin's Insincerity and 24-Team Playoff Game Theory
About this episode
The episode discusses the future of the College Football Playoff and the dynamics between major conferences amidst recent developments in college sports.
Alex and Richard use Richard’s trip to ACC meetings as a window into the big college sports fight of the hour: how many teams will be in the College Football Playoff going forward. Then they sort through the Big Ten/SEC split over 24 teams, Ole Miss’ strange week as a national punching bag in the middle of May, and Nebraska’s first run-in with the new NIL enforcement system, which might be less the end of creative player payments than the start of better paperwork. In this episode: * 3:22: What Richard learned at ACC meetings, including the coming ACC tiebreaker puzzle * 7:24: Why 16 vs. 24 teams is the next Playoff fight, and how conference title games, ESPN, and FOX fit into it * 17:47: Why the Big Ten and SEC are on opposite sides of the 24-team debate * 37:25: Ole Miss catches strays from Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian * 47:22: Nebraska’s rejected NIL deals, the College Sports Commission’s first big test, and the future of athletic department creativity Producer: Anthony Vito If you like this episode, you’ll love a paid subscription at www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe For $10 a month (or you can get a free month with an annual subscription), subscribers get about twice as many…
Topics covered
- College Football Playoff
- ACC meetings
- NIL enforcement
- Big Ten vs SEC
- Ole Miss
- 24-team playoff debate
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