Just a year from the modern 12-year-old play-off football, sports directors are already pressing on further expansion and hope to raise the number to 16 teams. But US representative Brendan F. Boyle, who represents the north -eastern Philadelphia and other parts of the city, warned earlier this week about what he considers to be a “collusion” between the two most powerful conferences of this sport.
“Let me say it as clearly as possible: big tenth and SEC should be very, very cautious about some decisions that they intend to make”, Boyle, Democrat, Wrote Monday to x. “Because they seem infernal in ruining the main university football. I think they need congress interrogations in their collusion.”
Great tenth and south -east conference organized a joint meeting In February in Nowy Orlean, he discovers the extension of Playoff field to 14 teams, with four automatic offers for two conferences, as well as two automatic offers for ACC and BIG 12 and one for a group of five schools, enabling only one offer. Since then, their proposal has increased to 16 teams, including games into four lower seeds. The fun will bring a double farewell to the two best teams in the field.
But the attempt to grant a huge tens and SEC aroused controversy among university football fans, including Boyle, a graduate of Notre Dame. As independent, Notre Dame does not qualify for automatic conference offers.
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“I hope it raises this consciousness,” Boyle said on Wednesday Inquirer. “And I think that what is trying to do Sec and a great dozens – and they did not decide that they would go this way – but they should be aware that going this way, doing something so unfair and developing university football that he will have consequences on the hill.
Boyle, who, as a member of the House budget committee ranking, spent the majority last week, arguing with President Donald Trump’s tax account, is a conscious potential perception when politics and sports are combined. But he does not see how they can remain separate, taking into account the size and scope of sport – and the growing number of problems related to employment, especially around the name, image and similarity.
“First of all, every time any government official defines sport, you will always have a person who replies:” What do you do to the devil? Stay away from the government. Watch out for your own case, “said Boyle, who added that sports are usually his escape from tough work. “… The second thing I would say is that you can call one, only one, multi -billion industry that is not regulated by the government?
“Don’t be surprised if after the last four years of these universities and universities, including SEC, coming to the congress with a request, don’t be surprised if we turn around and say:” Hey, wait a moment. It looks like this is the biggest threat in the game, is the way you try to assemble and create it at the beginning of the season It is playing. ”
Trump initially announced plans to examine the university’s athletics with the presidential commission run by businessman Corey Campbell, with the participation of former coach Nick Saban. These plans since then I was stopped. Saban talked to Congress on May 12 about the effects of zero contracts and called the Congress to enter and adopt regulations.
In 2024, the first season after retiring Sabana, Alabama was the subject of controversy. Crimson Tide was the last team cut from a 12-year-old play-off pitch after reaching 9-3 in the first season of Kalen Deboer as a coach, losing in favor of Sma, which lost, 38-10, to Penn State in the first round.
Then Alabama lost to Michigan in Reliaquest Bowl, but the anger of the anger of the Commissioner of the Conference Greg Sankey and SEC, who think they are punished for playing in more tough schedules, motivating the renovated pursuit of further change in Playoff format.
“The irony is that if you look at the last 20 years, SEC was probably the best conference in university football,” Boyle said. “I think that for most years, in a 16-year-old format, they would get at least four teams inside. In fact, last year they would introduce six teams on the field 16.
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All changes will not be introduced for a time in 2025, although Playoff in the next season will be different from the iteration of 2024, which awarded the four best seeds of the four best conference masters. Instead, the teams will be classified directly, which is an opening for more than one team of the Great Ten and SEC to make the first four and open to Notre Dame to get the farewell as independent.
But Boyle sees no reason to expand the field that has already increased from two to four teams – and maybe more.
“I loved a 12-year-old football playoff, which they had this year. This was ensured by the way every university and FBS could qualify and have the opportunity to qualify,” Boyle said. “It was extremely stimulating for fans – television ratings are certainly proof of this. And so I hope that now, when we really have a real play -ff, they would not be ruined only a year after the fans were finally created after many decades.”
