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Because Texas will have to win the conference in my opinion in order to be ranked top 4, if they lose the SEC championship game they will likely be either 11-2 or 10-3 and I doubt the committee would rank them top 4 at either of those records, just going off of how dumb they are about records and number of losses

Why do you think they only get it by winning the conference? It’s no longer tied to that, just the top 4 teams

Don’t care!!

Interesting. Wonder if they even adjusted them.

Does anybody actually know where ESPN gets their formula for calculating these percentages? Maybe the closest sewer or well used Port-a-Potty? I view Texas as more of a 15% or 20% at a first round bye because that only happens if Texas wins the SEC. ESPN is hilariously bad and gets worse by the year at this point.

Yep, and the only way it survives is some sort of antitrust exemption. Since I don't believe the legislation has any chance of passing, I have not read what antitrust exemptions they would include. If they have those then it could pass the courts. I have no problem with there being debate in Washington about this, especially considering local (school picked) judges are currently running college football. My issue, like others have stated, is that government involvement never works out. It just doesn't. That said, the nature of the courts involvement right now is never going to work out either.

If they can find a dozen wins in SEC play that would be great. Would like to see Texas split the Florida games and finally beat Arkansas and Tennessee. Hold down home court and find 3-4 road wins and that should be enough to lock up a 1 or 2 seed, especially if they get a double bye and make a deep run in the SEC Tournament.

Restricting NIL will immediately be challenged in court.

Collective bargaining can be a be careful what you wish for moment for players, especially the elite ones. For the most part collective bargaining helps the greater good but will in all likelihood negatively affect the elite players.

Im not against a bill that reigns schools in. I am however against all schools are equal. Texas brings in significantly more than Baylor for example. It should be tiered. The other issue I have is limiting actual NIL because some players are highly valued and will push this cap way over. You can not restrict a player on how much they can earn. By this way of thinking it would be a detriment to other players on the team. For example Arch, Simmons, Cam, Wingo, and Goosby will probably equal 70% or more. Where would that leave guys like Biles, D Will, Mosely etc.

Has anyone heard how Lovisa has developed after redshirting? We need an update on her. Who is the women hoop reporter?

The closer CFB gets to Triple A baseball the less interested I will be in watching. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49441655/stanford-football-players-join-push-collective-bargaining

One encouraging statement from Dellenger, “ Many of the SEC/Big Ten’s proposed changes in Title II - expansion and pooling rights - are in a “good place.” Also, he has stated a few times that this bill needs the full support of the sec and B1G in order to pass. So much for cantwell’s arrogance in dismissing and outright targeting the two conferences who are college football.

Totally agree with you! Not a federal issue, nor a federal problem. I hope it doesn’t pass.

Randy Levine is one of the worst people to have involved in literally anything that you want to be successful. He’s played a critical role in turning the Yankees from powerhouse to bloated and underperforming.

As Mack says, “#facts”

Exactly. That's really the whole point. National rules don't accomplish much if nobody has the authority to enforce them and the penalties don't stick. Give college sports one set of rules and real enforcement behind them. That's where Congress can actually help. It's when they start trying to manage conference expansion, TV rights and the entire economics of the sport that they lose me.

Unfortunately this whole “Save” act is ALL political. And anytime a politician says they are going to fix something. It turns into bat guano very quickly. The Yankees CEO and Cody just happen to be big donors and buddies of guess who. Enough said. Their interests are not good for the universities involved for athletics or academics. Run like the wind from this bunch.