Perhaps the BEST B1G Forum anywhere, here at College Football Fan Site, CFB51!!!

Pete Thamel on Finebaum yesterday had a great quote. I am paraphrasing but he said this was the Seinfeld Alliance; an alliance about nothing. In the same show Finebaum quoted McBeth; "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

They may prove to be correct. I have no idea how this will play out.

The one little nugget I took from this is the specific part they spoke about putting a little halt on the proposed 12 team playoff because so many of the members of the alliance were not at the table for that conversation.

I am just spit bawling here and this may never happen, but if the alliance has influence over the playoff and actually has the power to stop it, then this will be a lot more than “nothing”

That’s just it…. If they do separate on the playoff, all you would have left following it is the SEC.   

Not sure how that would go….

Maybe they are planning to kill the B12 and make the playoff 4 teams, conference champs only...

That'll get the P12 on board since they can't seem to consistently field a worthy team otherwise...

I think this would be a tough sell for the G5 since they were already being promised access to the expanded playoff.  The anti-collusion anti-trust talks would fire up again.  At that point, I think the only scenario left, would be an NCAA breakaway for the P4 conferences, in football at least.

The groundwork for this is already being laid. It's only a matter of time now.

I think this is more about a getting something of a consensus in the post-NIL era where the NCAA passes most rules & enforcement to the conferences.  Per ESPN on July 15, 2021 "NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday the time is right to consider a decentralized and deregulated version of college sports, shifting power to conferences and campuses and reconsidering how schools are aligned.".
With the upcoming NCAA constitutional convention in November, this is a good time to start getting ideas in order.

I think this would be a tough sell for the G5 since they were already being promised access to the expanded playoff.  The anti-collusion anti-trust talks would fire up again.  At that point, I think the only scenario left, would be an NCAA breakaway for the P4 conferences, in football at least.

They could potentially weasel out by making it the top ranked conference champions. That way if some obviously inferior conference champ (say a 3-loss winner of a weak P4 division who scores an upset in the CCG) is ranked lower than some undefeated G6 team, the G6 still has a potential entry point.