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1 day agoSEC adds ninth conference game, with huge implications for the College Football Playoff and Big 12
After years of discussion and consideration, the university presidents voted to adopt a nine-game conference schedule beginning next fall. The decision, announced Thursday, has sweeping ramifications for the regular season and the College Football Playoff. Remember those stalled negotiations over the future CFP format? The Big Ten supported a radical 16-team proposal full of automatic qualifiers while the SEC, ACC and Big 12 backed a model (dubbed 5+11) that leaned into at-large berths.
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