College Sports on the Brink: This Week’s Crucial Meetings Could Change Everything Forever
More than ever, the rift between the Big Ten and SEC and all other FBS programs is clear. The two behemoth conferences, after threatening to leave the CFP to start their own playoff two years ago, negotiated a new revenue-distribution model where they earn a combined 59% of playoff revenues.
The two leagues were at the forefront of a chase for television cash that transformed the conference landscape into an unrecognizable swath of programs without much geographic or cultural sense (though the SEC’s 16 schools do remain contiguous). Among the power leagues, the biggest brands are consolidated into the two conferences, hogging prime television windows, producing eye-popping viewership numbers, generating the most cash and assembling the best talent.


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