ANTI AUTOMATIC BID RAMIFICATIONS

Athlon U foreshadows the legal ramifications of NFL Automatic bids

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00:00And I was told in the Senior Bowl by somebody very high up that was like,

00:02hey, if the Big Ten and the SEC take all these bids, there could be absolutely

00:06antitrust lawsuits coming behind it. So you've got legal ramifications, political ramifications,

00:10court of public opinion, and potentially your biggest TV partners, ESPN and Fox,

00:14all four of which could be opposed to the automatic qualifier 4-4-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1 thing.

00:21And it might not matter because the Big Ten and the SEC might have a supermajority here

00:26that's unbreakable. And frankly, that's what's really funny about this. We don't even know.

00:30Like, how many votes do they get? Three votes each, and then the other conferences get one vote

00:34each. We don't even know what that means. It does not have to be unanimous, but it does feel like a

00:38lot of things are lined up against the automatic qualifier 4 bids for the Big Ten, 4 bids for the

00:44SEC. Look, I live in a state, you live in a state with a supermajority, and they don't care what the

00:48public opinion wants.