🏈 When it comes to college football, the country should thank the SEC

If this six-year streak is what it took to turn the thinking of the powers-that-be toward a better postseason model, it's been much more valuable than a few crystal footballs.

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That, as Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis so aptly put it last week, is what this all boils down to, this growing
drumbeat for an end to the BCS as we know it.


NCAA president Mark Emmert has voiced support for a four-team playoff for college football and even Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has said he's open to the idea of abandoning the BCS.


This week, Arizona State president Michael Crow pitched an eight-team playoff to the Arizona Republic, saying, "In the Pac-12, we are not strong supporters of the present model."


Funny how one conference winning six straight national titles can force even the most stubborn rats to abandon the sinking BCS ship.


Back in 2008, Delany and representatives from Pac-12 were the main dissenting voices against a proposal for a four-team "plus-one" model pushed by the SEC's Mike Slive and the ACC's John Swofford.


What's changed between 2008 and now?

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