Fickell GONE!

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With a 12 team playoff, it's going to be fine to be outside the Big Ten and SEC. It may well be easier to make the playoffs as Cincinnati in the Big XII compared to Wisconsin in the Big 10. Sure, the Big 10 is going to get at least three bids every year, but those are going to be Ohio State, Michigan and USC. Maybe there's a fourth bid, but everyone else is scrambling for that one. Ditto the SEC where LSU, Alabama and Georgia are going to continue to dominate things until Oklahoma decides to get good again. The real winners if they stay put are Notre Dame, They get to laugh through 5 or 6 ACC games, play Navy, Stanford and a couple of other stinkers, maybe lose to USC and end up #8. Ho hum, another playoff berth achieved.

We will have to wait and see how it all turns out, but you are talking about 32 teams who are going to be stuffed full of cash. 3 to 4 apiece for the B1G and SEC? 25% of the combined group, assuming 4 from each?

Again, anything can happen, but what about this:

SEC
- Bama
- LSU
- Georgia
- Tennessee
- Plus one of A&M, Florida, see where this is headed?

B1G
- Ohio State
- Michigan
- USC
- One of Penn State, MSU, Whisky, parallel to above.

9 out of 10 spots.

Now, Clemson and/or FSU. Oregon.

I’m not sure it’s going to be all that better for UC.