Dawgnation’s Connor Riley joined Dukes & Bell to talk about the newly formed college football alliance between the Big 10, Pac-12 and ACC really about TV deals instead of the greater good of the sport?
When asked about the college football alliance and the press conference held yesterday.
“For these conference commissioners to come out yesterday and say yea we don’t have anything written in paper, it’s just kind of a verbal agreement between the three conferences, I don’t think this is as big of a deal as people are making it out to be,” Riley said. “I think this is mainly about wanting the current college football playoff contract to get to it’s expiration date, that way in 2026 they can A: make the most money possible by renegotiating with everyone. And B: keep power away from ESPN, because I think the big reason that Texas and Oklahoma are joining the SEC is to give more power to ESPN who currently has exclusive rights with the college football playoff and if they renegotiate the college football playoff before that ESPN has exclusive window to do that, and that just gives ESPN more power.”
“So I think these other conferences, some of which like the ACC have exclusive rights with, I think it’s more to keep power out of ESPN’s hands than it is necessarily to stifle the SEC.”