Who reports to who???

getting Lane Kiffin to walk the line now that he’s at one of the top recruiting schools in the SEC. Kiffin has always been able to recruit, but he left Ole Miss because Saban told him LSU would be much easier to get the highest rated talent. Saban even implied that it was easier to recruit to LSU than Alabama. Back to the topic, I think it was easier for Sankey to keep the other SEC schools in line when Saban dominated, but that era is over with NIL, Portal and no Saban IMHO. The fact that it’s gone public about some SEC schools wanting 24 and Sankey doesn’t, is a huge shift in the situation. It will be interesting to see if he can reel them back in.

If you lead a Board of directors of 16 Univeristy CEO's and know what the problem is, as a leader you should konw the situation, before placing anything in an agenda. Sounds like Sanky pushes an agenda he wants to discuss, not what the president's want to discuss. hmmm..

Sankey, as usual, is so full of **** it's coming out his ears. The only reason he acts like he doesn't want massive expansion is because he knows they can't realistically make 3/4 of the field 6-6 and 7-5 SEC programs. The only party that doesn't want massive CFP expansion is Disney, and that's only because they'll lose their unchecked control over the postseason (and, by extension, the college football narrative) because they can't afford to pay for all the extra content. People completely lose sight of the objective fact that the CFP is, lock, stock, and barrel, a Disney product, designed, staged, seeded, and controlled entirely by the Walt Disney Corporation. That's why we see the decisions we see about who gets in and who plays who. The only thing they don't control about the CFP is the outcome of the games. Once other investors come in at the ground level, that changes, and all of a sudden the landscape starts looking a whole lot different. ** Edited by Baltimore_Hokie at 5/27/2026, 10:12:16 AM

Kiffin was the Chief Gripper and implied you are better off not making the game. Teams fall in line when you win everything, but the SEC hasn’t made the football finals in 3 years. Still want basketball first schools to improve your Conference? 🤔

IF they do, easy, but impacts are the remaining members freeze out all scheduling at all for not only football basketball, and all sports (including baseball softball, track) etc.

The impact of the legacy conference championship game, especially for the P2 and the Big 12/ACC will be reduced to basically nothing once the CFP field expands beyond 12. Nobody will care. Add to that the concerns expressed by Kiffin, who may be a blowhard, but isn't necessarily wrong, and you wind up with a situation where the players/coaches don't want to be in them, and the broadcasters don't want to pay top dollar for them. Once you're looking at that kind of math, it will take about 30-40 seconds to announce they're done. Think about it for a second - if you're in the Big 10 or SEC, and you make and have to play in the conference championship game, you're already basically guaranteed to be in the CFP field - why wouldn't you just rest all your starters? And if you're in the ACC and Big 12, all the championship game represents is another opportunity to lose a game to a dangerous opponent and get knocked out of the field so one more 7-5 SEC team can get in. Those games are already done - Sankey is just doing what he does best: toeing the Disney company line. ** Edited by Baltimore_Hokie at 5/27/2026, 3:25:30 PM

expands to 24 teams. Yes, both P2 teams participating in the game will likely make the playoff field. That isn't why people might still care about the game though. If a team is borderline from potentially either hosting a 1st Round game or receiving a 1st Round bye, then winning the CCG could be enough to move a P2 team high enough in the final poll to achieve that goal. Likewise, it would also mean another team (dare I say an ACC team, Big XII team, or P2 at-large team from the opposite conference) has been bumped out of that slot. In some ways, it may not be that much different than Bump Day for the Indianapolis 500.

have enough impact where Disney/FOX/whoever is going to pay the premium they're paying now for those championship games, and if they're not paying big bucks to the conference for the rights, why even have them? It's not like they're some kind of priceless heirloom that we need to hold onto. They've only been around since the mid 90s, and the ACC's only been staging one since the 2005 season. And, they're not like a conference basketball tournament, where theoretically some team from the bottom half of the standings that has no business winning the conference could come out of nowhere and go on a run to take the crown. And, again, except in very specific scenarios, the players and coaches won't even really want to be there if they already know they're going to be in the CFP field, because it's just one more potential loss. You ask any of those guys, they're almost certainly going to want to let their regular season resume stand on its own. You just wind up in a situation where nobody wants them and there's no reason to have them.

to the coaches if they know some/most/all of that money is going back into the program's war chest. Likewise, the players may care if they are receiving a cut of the gameday revenue. For teams receiving a 1st Round bye, they may still get to play the 2nd Round at their stadium. If that is the case, then they should be able to charge more money for the "privilege" to attend the 2nd Round in person. My point is the P2 schools will always try to find ways to maximize their revenue even if Disney or Fox tries to stiff them on the payout of the CCGs. Plus, Disney and Fox may not be completely set on getting rid of the CCGs. Since both networks have a business relationship with various gambling apps, the games offer both networks 1 more game to generate more gambling activity. In terms of revenue for the networks, we may not be that far away from the day gambling becomes a network's bread and butter and ad revenue from a game is icing on the cake. A reason fans don't talk much about the gambling aspect is because there is very little to no data on the subject. If the networks are keeping the data locked up in a vault tighter than Fort Knox, then it could suggest they are sitting on a gold mine and they don't want the public to know the size of the gold mine. ** Edited by VTHokie2000 at 5/27/2026, 5:30:29 PM

It also looks like Fox is beating Disney at its own game.

learned from that experience to apply it to the FBS Playoffs.