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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
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