CBS sums it up very nicely.... The College Football Game is about to change in a major way.....its
not just about the money. Its about WHO is "running" College football. (NCAA gets its wings clipped 30 days ago by the Supreme Ct; now, just 30 days later SEC basically says, WE are taking this thing over)
From the article:
As much as anything else, this power play is about … power. Watch what the SEC does with its version of a 16-team superconference. (It may not even stop there.) With no central NCAA authority, there will be those who follow the SEC's athletic model and those who don't ... or can't, whether financially or otherwise.
"The autonomous conferences can determine who they are by themselves. They don't need any NCAA. They can just make it up as they go," one college consultant told CBS Sports.
If that just means four super conferences, it will continue the progress of what has already been a de facto breakaway by the Power Five. No matter what happens, the SEC might just have become the new NCAA.
Look for the Big Ten to make some moves -- quickly -- and TV networks to have their say
www.cbssports.com