Last week in Las Vegas, three of the four power-conference commissioners gathered to discuss the latest issues impacting college athletics. The College Football Playoff’s future naturally became the focal point for ACC commissioner Jim Phillips, the Big 12’s Brett Yormark and SEC’s Greg Sankey barely a day after a controversial Selection Sunday and with a rapidly approaching Jan. 23 deadline to decide on the event’s future for next season.
Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti also attended the discussion, albeit virtually, to give his requisite input. While it was not abnormal for him to abstain from attending such an in-person gathering of his peers, the dichotomy between those commissioners gathered in person and the one speaking from the opposite coast is an apt allegory for the current CFP expansion wrangling that could soon come to a head.
