For years, college football has lacked parity. “It’s the Power 2,” AAC commissioner Mike Aresco told The Post, “and everyone else.”
“For all the money that is pouring into college football, which is evidenced by the new Big Ten deal, I still feel like the sport at some point is headed toward an iceberg,” Paul Finebaum, a college football analyst, historian and radio talk show host for ESPN, told The Post in a phone interview. “It simply is not sustainable what is happening, because you essentially now have two super-conferences within the structure, and you can try to argue that the rest of the sports matters.
Nick Saban’s Alabama teams have been regular participants in the College Football Playoff, and the SEC and Big Ten are now the clear power conferences in the sport.“This is probably the most critical time we’ve had in decades,” Aresco said. “That kind of consolidation [with two power leagues] really risks having the rest of the country being irrelevant. That’s what you can’t have. In the end, there will be less interest.
But the playoff’s management committee, made up of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, failed to come up with a unanimous agreement, and the plan was tabled. At a July meeting, there was renewed optimism of an agreement on expansion, perhaps spurred on by the Big Ten’s recent additions. However, it is uncertain if the new format — provided one can be agreed upon in the near future — would be able to be implemented immediately.
Automatic qualifiers could be a sticking point. The Big Ten and SEC obviously don’t need them. The other leagues certainly would like them, if nothing more than as a selling point to recruits that they can still reach the sport’s biggest stage without playing in one of the two super leagues. Otherwise, the likes of the Pac-12, ACC, Big 12 and AAC risk fighting an uphill battle on a steep incline.
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