Less than a month removed from the conclusion of the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff, leaders from the SEC and Big Ten, the two most powerful conferences, will hold on Wednesday the second set of joint meetings to plot the next steps regarding the future of college football. It serves as an unofficial opening salvo to the rest of the FBS schools as college athletics continues its frantic sprint toward underlying stasis.
The biggest action item in the closed-door sessions will surround where, exactly, the two leagues stand when it comes to the CFP structure, format, timing and more. Few who spoke to Sports Illustrated in recent weeks expect any sort of declaratory news conference involving Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and counterpart Greg Sankey. However, there is little doubt the CFP fans see in coming years will trace its origins to some of the chatter this week ahead of broader CFP meetings in Dallas at the end of the month.
