00:00Coach, are you a fan of the 12-team playoff?
00:03Do you like what you're seeing?
00:05Do you think it needs to be expanded?
00:06There's talk of 16, potentially even 24.
00:10Do you like where it is, or do you think it needs to be modified?
00:13Well, whether I like it or not, it's going to be expanded
00:16because the answer is money.
00:18Now, what was the question?
00:21It all ends with money, right?
00:23It all ends.
00:25They're going to need more money.
00:27And all these programs know it.
00:28We've got jersey patches now.
00:30We've got all sorts of things going on.
00:32Ultimately, we're going to grow to 24.
00:35When that happens is up to Tony Petiti of the Big Ten
00:38and Greg Sankey of the SEC.
00:40Those two have to make a deal.
00:42And Greg is sitting there going,
00:43you can't make me leave what we're doing now
00:46when I'm making $100 million on my SEC championship game.
00:49Because if you go to 24, the championship games are out.
00:54He has to have that $100 million replaced
00:56before he can go to his presidents and say this is a good idea.
01:00So they're going to have to work through that.
01:02But eventually we'll get to 24, and it'll be exciting.
01:05And we'll have some play-in games.
01:07I can even envision, Dan, someday where there's a challenge game, right?
01:11The committee's got so many teams on the right side of the line
01:14and so many on the wrong side.
01:15Can you imagine the SEC having a team like Missouri saying,
01:19okay, we're going to go to Eugene, Oregon,
01:21and we're going to play Oregon on the last week of the season,
01:24a challenge game.
01:25And now the Big Ten gets to fire back and say,
01:28Illinois is going to go to Ole Miss and play a challenge game
01:32so that we can show that this team is better than that team.
01:35Imagine the television ratings for those kind of contests.
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