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Pat Forde

Everyone Has a Plan to Fix College Sports—but Will Any of Them Work?

Though there's disagreement over the route to take going forward, those in college athletics agree that it's time for a change. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

The wheels are turning. Everywhere. Everyone is in search of a better plan for college football and college sports as a whole. There are projects and blueprints and high-level meetings all coming down at once.

Thursday in Nashville, the athletic directors and commissioners from the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten schools will get together to discuss … stuff. It has generally been portrayed as a benign, issues-based meeting—but everyone else is (and should be) on guard. Could power-play pronouncements about scheduling and the allotment of College Football Playoff bids be coming out of this? Maybe.

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