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If they go to 24 teams with no conference championship games, do you think that’s a step toward eliminating conferences as we know them? Perhaps we end up with an nfl-like structure with two large conferences. Another way we get there could be another round of expansion by the SEC & Big 10, essentially cherry picking Notre Dame and a couple of the ACC schools. im not a proponent of this, but I think that’s the direction we are heading.

Talent and coaching, yes, but these guys are hemorrhaging dollars without results.

This makes me want to puke

@Joe Z he’s going after your Ducks!!! Go get him.

With 16 teams, 9 conference games and no CCG you cannot have a champion.

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Didn't matter how much they pushed for him, he wanted to stay in on the west coast and more specifically California. Only shot at him would've been if he would've portaled out later but that's likely not happening now after his success there.

Raleek was never their WR1 or even RB1 for that matter.

Like with Raleek Brown?? 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

The instability in college athletics provided the entry way necessary for Landry and his local judges to enter the fray. As the old saying goes: nature abhors a vacuum. That said, Kiffin is also a deliberate actor in this. Stupid sayings like "don't hate the player, hate the game" miss the point. He's an unethical reprobate seeking to advance his personal profile in a way no different than Landry. Regardless of how this works out for LSU, the SEC needs to drop the hammer on him to prevent future hucksters from trying to destabilize the system for their personal gain.

Yeah, on the same page as you -- 12 was junk, 16 is clean, and 24 works fine if it brings back real non‑conference games. Killing conference title games is overdue anyway; they’re just TV filler at this point -- again, in agreement.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying - the Landry/LSU mess is its own little fiefdom. That’s Baton Rouge politics doing Baton Rouge things. But that’s exactly why I don’t treat it like some grand driver of the national playoff structure. It’s a local power play, not a steering wheel for the sport. The playoff expansion fight is being pushed by the conferences and media money. The LSU situation is being pushed by a governor who saw a soft target and a chance to flex. Those are two totally different engines. Louisiana politics didn’t create the 24‑team bracket. Louisiana politics just reminded everyone how chaotic things get when a state leader decides the athletic department is his personal stage. And yeah --- the money is always lurking in the background - but it’s coming from different directions. ESPN and the Big Ten/SEC are chasing national revenue. Landry is chasing local political capital. One affects the entire sport; the other affects one campus and one fanbase.

He has a talent advantage at Colorado and has them rolling backwards. He wouldn't do anything better at FSU.

SMU is the only FBS or NFL team in the last 30 years to have: -3 or worse turnover margin twice as many penalties as their opponent fewer rushing yards than their opponent lower TOP than their opponent more missed FG than their opponent ...and yet still win the game. yo

12 no good. 16 my preference, but ok with 24. Big opening weekend games will come back, maybe even increase. Teams won’t be so after if that once loss in non conference and out of playoffs. Good with deleting conference championship games .

LSU is a sh*t show and Lane Kiffin is the cherry on top.

I'd argue the LSU situation with the Governor basically taking over the LSU athletic department is not closely related to playoff expansion. Landry saw a way to increase his political capital, and knew he could get away with it in the state that is more corrupt than Tammany Hall because it's always had the lowest rated education system in the country. No doubt the political side is also financially motivated in the end, but the money comes from different places.

BK has had some excellent reporting and interviews on Texas softball ...starting to watch a lot more of his podcasts

Alvin Mosley is at Fort Bend Crawford in Houston, they’re not related.

Yeah, I hear you --- once politicians start poking around in college athletics, everything gets messier. But the playoff expansion stuff is still being driven by ESPN and the conferences chasing bigger payouts. The Louisiana circus didn’t create the 24‑team bracket; it just showed how chaotic things can get when outside forces jump in. The money is what’s steering the ship here, not Baton Rouge.

This is what happens when political leaders get involved with college athletics. It's a no lose battle for the politicos because they get votes regardless of the outcome for "sticking up" for the "team." Of course, it could only happen in Louisiana. The state of Louisiana should invest in literacy rather than LSU athletics. It won't happen because corruption is most definitely profitable on the bayou.

Yeah, I’m with a lot of you here ---- 24 is just ESPN shaking the money tree. It nukes conference title games, waters down the field, and turns November into glorified seeding. Sixteen is the sweet spot: real stakes, real games, real atmospheres. Anything past that is just TV executives playing bracket‑builder.

Totally with you on this. LSU handed the SEC exactly what it needed, and now Sankey’s just cashing the check. The 21‑day response window, Kiffin getting named, LSU blinking - all of it lines up with the SEC tightening the screws and using this as their precedent case. LSU thought they were playing chicken, but the league wasn’t swerving.

Winning a game or two in the tournament would be huge for the Directors' Cup