SEC football: Talks of own playoff are absolutely unhinged
According to reports, SEC football is considering adding its own playoff which is an unhinged idea. This would be a terrible move.
“It just means more.”
That phrase is muttered by SEC football fans every fall as teams like Alabama, LSU, and Georgia carry the conference into the postseason.
Alabama has carried the league for over a decade thanks to Nick Saban while LSU and Georgia have won national titles in recent years. Even Texas A&M is on the rise after landing the No. 1 recruiting class in the country for 2022 which caused Saban to call Jimbo Fisher out for “buying” all of his players. That new rivalry is going to be fun to monitor.
The league has always felt like it’s the best college football has to offer and that’s becoming even more evident as the SEC is considering hosting its own playoff during its spring meetings, according to Pete Thamel.
Could the SEC stage its own college football playoff? It's all on the table at spring meetings and something “we should absolutely consider an option." Column that peeks at the uncertainty lingering in the sport with no concrete playoff plan set after 2025 https://t.co/HgsaoP1VpC
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) May 23, 2022
So what do we make of this idea? In my opinion, it’s unhinged.
Sure, the SEC has dominated college football for a little while and is home to the national champion darn near every year now, but teams like Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Clemson are also in the running annually and there will soon be more teams to add to the mix like Michigan, Baylor, USC, Michigan State, Oklahoma State, Miami, Oregon, and more.
Why would the SEC think that its own playoff would be respected by the rest of the nation?
Fans of the SEC would love it because they would be in their own little “we’re better than you” bubble, but outside of the conference, no one would care nor take it seriously.
Does the SEC truly think that a playoff with its own teams would have any effect on the rest of college football? If anything, it would lessen the importance of the conference. That goes against the “it just means more” phrase.
No one will care about an SEC playoff over the College Football Playoff and what would this even prove? Not a darn thing.
This idea needs to be put to bed unless the SEC wants “it just means more” to become “it doesn’t really mean that much.”
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