Kirby Smart drops the S word about the SEC seceding and everybody wants to act shocked. You think the Big Ten would sit quietly if the playoff format started favoring SEC teams? Please. We have been carrying the sport for a decade and a half and the moment we push back on these. The whole conference realignment mess and these playoff format debates always circle back to one thing. They want to water down the SEC dominance by making the path easier for everyone else. Three straight national titles for the Big Ten and suddenly they want to act like parity has arrived. Tell me when Indiana has to play our schedule for four years straight and then we can talk about who deserves an easier road. Smart is playing chess while these other commissioners are playing checkers. The SEC holds all the leverage because we produce the ratings the recruits the NFL talent everything. Without us the playoff is just a Big Ten invitational with a few guest appearances. And honestly if the other conferences want to keep pretending like they can compete without our revenue and our viewership numbers let them try. We will be just fine building our own path while everyone else scrambles to figure out how to keep up. The standard is not changing because a few coaches got tired of losing to us.