The plan originated from SEC athletic administrator meetings and has the support of coaches, who reviewed the concepts last week. The potential December changes are now being socialized across the country.
The committee is discussing levying suspensions on more school officials in infractions cases, including compliance officers, athletic directors, university presidents and chancellors.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast analyzing the new approved format for the College Football Playoff, which will have five automatic qualifiers and seven at-large bids.
Ideally, the people that run the College Football Playoff wouldn’t be discussing expanding the College Football Playoff before the College Football Playoff has even officially expanded.
All 134 FBS programs have agreed to participate in the game.
Get ready for more automatic qualifiers for certain conferences.
Are there more changes on the way for the College Football Playoff?
The number of underclassmen entering the NFL Draft is down dramatically, year-over-year.
The CFP officially has a new format.
The gap between haves and have-nots is widening, and the Group of Five can't keep up.
In a memo sent to his league administrators, one commissioner described reports of the CFP agreeing to or having concluded an extension of the media rights deal with ESPN as “incorrect.”
The Longhorns have locked in their head coach after a Big 12 championship and a trip to the College Football Playoff.
Details about new leadership will be announced next week, according to the league.
Holly played three games for the Tigers during the 2023 season.
Elliott worked as an assistant at South Carolina before taking the Georgia State job in 2017.
One of the great careers in sports broadcasting is coming to an end.
In the proposal, the Pac-12 is asking the CFP to guarantee the league revenue distribution amounts and voting privileges.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast breaking down the coaching turnover that took place over the last few days at UCLA.
The playoff is expanding from four teams to 12 this season.
The gap between the major conferences and all others has existed for decades, but now there are cracks forming within that top tier of conferences — and those cracks could lead to major changes for the college football and basketball postseasons.
Foster has been UCLA's running backs coach for the past seven seasons.
Grubb is heading back to Seattle after a few weeks in Tuscaloosa.
The 21-year-old was honored in a ceremony Friday.
When the head coach of UCLA just up and quits to become an assistant somewhere else, it should make you question everything.
Kelly is heading to Ohio State.
O'Brien was hired as Ohio State's offensive coordinator in January.
Raiola, a longtime Georgia commit, flipped from the Bulldogs to the Cornhuskers before the early signing period.
Martindale replaces Jesse Minter after Minter left to run the Chargers' defense.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde examine the news that Kirk Herbstreit may have contributed to quarterback Dylan Raiola flipping from Georgia to Nebraska.
Livingston has spent the last six seasons as the Bengals' safeties coach.
Saban didn't stay fully retired for very long.
Minter announced his departure Tuesday on social media.
In the wake of his dad's departure, Steve is headed across the country.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde examine the fallout from SEC & Big Ten commissioners Greg Sankey and Tony Pettiti creating a new partnership on the future of college football.
If it stands, Monday's ruling puts further pressure on the NCAA's amateurism model and its stance that athletes are student-athletes rather than employees.
Jay Harbaugh and Mike Macdonald both worked on the Michigan Wolverines staff.
With college sports in turmoil, the CFP management committee is still undecided on a future format. There are several key issues in play this week in Dallas.
Despite a damning Supreme Court ruling in 2021, college sports leaders kept plugging away with frivolous matters via the NCAA. Now there's a real reckoning happening, and its two biggest conferences are taking charge.
Sankey believes the NCAA should focus on the larger issues in college athletics rather than pursuing individual cases of recruiting violations.
Amid one of the most pivotal times in college athletics, the SEC and Big Ten are creating a joint advisory group to address the turmoil enveloping the industry.
With various ongoing lawsuits and NIL controversies, college athletics is a bit of a mess right now. How will collectives fit in moving forward?
The Packers are going outside the box with their new defensive coordinator.
College athletics sits in a sort-of purgatory — stuck, it seems, between archaic amateurism principles and a full-scale professional model.
Tennessee was fined $8 million in July for violations that happened under former football coach Jeremy Pruitt.
Construction began on Memorial Stadium as soon as the 2023 season ended and four of the six home games in 2024 will be played in Missouri.
Arizona and Kansas State and Baylor and Utah already had games on the schedule before the Pac-12 teams moved to the Big 12.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde give their thoughts on the news of Jim Harbaugh leaving Michigan to coach the Los Angeles Chargers.
Tim Lester will replace Brian Ferentz, who was fired last season after the Hawkeyes’ offense became one of the worst in the country.
When college programs try to replace legends who have been consistently winning, the biggest question is obvious: If everything is going nearly perfect under the old guy, then how does the new guy do better?
Sherrone Moore went 4-0 leading the Wolverines on an interim basis last season while Jim Harbaugh was serving his suspensions.