The conferences are pushing to assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league, with as many as four each for themselves. In short, a plethora of changes are on the table.
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Sources: SEC, Big Ten building momentum to further expand College Football Playoff to 14 or 16 teams
sports.yahoo.com Sources: SEC, Big Ten building momentum to further expand College Football Playoff to 14 or 16 teams
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Turns out B1G and SEC are wearing the pants here.

Monumental shift: Power conferences, not NCAA, to control policing athlete compensation
sports.yahoo.com Monumental shift: Power conferences, not NCAA, to control policing athlete compensation
A committee of power conference administrators took significant steps this week toward the creation of a new entity that will govern the evolving professionalized aspects of college sports.
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Yeah I like the idea of this, but for top heavy conferences like the B1G, where's the incentive for them to impose any penalties on the top tier of the conference? Mizzou is gonna wind up on the stake all the time so that alabama can continue to pay for play.