Why won't the SEC get rid of the championship game?
The College Football Enquirer discusses how the SEC’s college football title game creates enormous resistance because of the money that is involved, and no guaranteed College Football Playoff expansion makes them vulnerable. (via College Football Enquirer)
Video Transcript
So this will be an interesting one because Greg Sankey is facing pressure in multiple directions.
His coaches clearly want 24.
Multiples of his ADs have come out on the record and said they want to get rid of the conference championship game.
Greg Sankey, as Ross pointed out, has a, a hundred million reasons to s- to try to protect the conference championship game because the SEC makes more off its conference championship game than everybody else.
There's no guarantee it would be made whole by the larger playoff.
This is why Greg Sankey keeps saying, "Well, we have contracts.
We have contracts."
Okay, contracts can be amended.
Yeah.
Give me a break.
But, but that is wh- that is why- We have- he keeps saying that.
We have con- Yeah, from the league that brought you coaching contracts, gone a mo- Yeah, we have contracts.
Give Oh, God.
