H3 Blair Kerkhoff
Oct 22, 2026 · 36 min · 17 segments
Blair Kerkhoff of the KC Star joins us to discuss the gift that keeps on giving, College Sports and Money! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Oct 22, 2026 · 36 min · 17 segments
Blair Kerkhoff of the KC Star joins us to discuss the gift that keeps on giving, College Sports and Money! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Soren PetroHost
Blair KerkhoffGuest
Curtis SeaboltHost
told the Ticket in Dallas that once the expansion to 24 is official, that there's going to be a scheduling agreement between the SEC and the Big Ten.
Shahan Jayarajah, our college football insider, took to Twitter and said, they're going to use this to lock the ACC and Big 12 out of major non-conference games and then use the, quote, weak non-conference as justification to try to put 18 Big Ten and SEC teams into the 2014 playoff.
Pete Thamel, Then tweeted out, Big Ten Chief Operating Officer Kerry Kenney tells ESPN there's not a specific SEC Big Ten scheduling agreement being announced, as has been intimated publicly.
When the college football playoff formally expands to 24 teams starting in 27, every Big Ten team is committed to an annual non-con game against a power team.
All four power conferences have been working for weeks to ensure everyone meets that standard in 27.
Moving forward, the Big Ten will continue to discuss opportunities to play the SEC on a more consistent basis, along with playing the Big 12 ACC in Notre Dame.
What do you think? What's reality? I mean, it does seem like that would be their path, since all that matters is money, money, money, money.
I think there's probably a lot of truth in them trying to freeze out everybody else.
Yeah, and not only for the competitive advantage for the you know, for the bracket, the 2014 bracket.
you know, ESPN and Fox wouldn't mind that either, because think of the inventory that could come from, you know, from such an agreement, you know, guaranteed games like Ohio State, Alabama, or Michigan, Georgia, games that are that we have seen in the last few years.
Blair, sorry to interrupt you, but do you think that's what we'd see, or there'd be a line around the block to schedule Vanderbilt and Northwestern? Like, would we get Alabama, Northwestern, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and they would protect the brands that are at the top like they've always done in these leagues?
some suggestion when it comes to to the games I think it's you know it's the it was the pressure from what ESPN that the SEC expanded to a nine game schedule this year there needed to be more inventory more conference games so you're right I mean yes maybe you know it's it's not Ohio State Alabama it's Mississippi State Alabama
year I don't know what the You know, the way the SEC is, I don't know what the good example is this year.
But, you know, I hope that, you know, the final say in a bracket that will have 24 teams will be, you know, a committee will have a lot of say in that and who gets in under the bracket will So, you know, there'll be rankings in Division II, which already has the expanded bracket like that.
champions get selected, then there's a rating system to fill out the rest of the bracket.
told the Ticket in Dallas that once the expansion to 24 is official, that there's going to be a scheduling agreement between the SEC and the Big Ten.
Shahan Jayarajah, our college football insider, took to Twitter and said, they're going to use this to lock the ACC and Big 12 out of major non-conference games and then use the, quote, weak non-conference as justification to try to put 18 Big Ten and SEC teams into the 2014 playoff.
Pete Thamel, Then tweeted out, Big Ten Chief Operating Officer Kerry Kenney tells ESPN there's not a specific SEC Big Ten scheduling agreement being announced, as has been intimated publicly.
When the college football playoff formally expands to 24 teams starting in 27, every Big Ten team is committed to an annual non-con game against a power team.
All four power conferences have been working for weeks to ensure everyone meets that standard in 27.
Moving forward, the Big Ten will continue to discuss opportunities to play the SEC on a more consistent basis, along with playing the Big 12 ACC in Notre Dame.
What do you think? What's reality? I mean, it does seem like that would be their path, since all that matters is money, money, money, money.
I think there's probably a lot of truth in them trying to freeze out everybody else.
Yeah, and not only for the competitive advantage for the you know, for the bracket, the 2014 bracket.
you know, ESPN and Fox wouldn't mind that either, because think of the inventory that could come from, you know, from such an agreement, you know, guaranteed games like Ohio State, Alabama, or Michigan, Georgia, games that are that we have seen in the last few years.
Blair, sorry to interrupt you, but do you think that's what we'd see, or there'd be a line around the block to schedule Vanderbilt and Northwestern? Like, would we get Alabama, Northwestern, Ohio State, Vanderbilt, and they would protect the brands that are at the top like they've always done in these leagues?
some suggestion when it comes to to the games I think it's you know it's the it was the pressure from what ESPN that the SEC expanded to a nine game schedule this year there needed to be more inventory more conference games so you're right I mean yes maybe you know it's it's not Ohio State Alabama it's Mississippi State Alabama
year I don't know what the You know, the way the SEC is, I don't know what the good example is this year.
But, you know, I hope that, you know, the final say in a bracket that will have 24 teams will be, you know, a committee will have a lot of say in that and who gets in under the bracket will So, you know, there'll be rankings in Division II, which already has the expanded bracket like that.
champions get selected, then there's a rating system to fill out the rest of the bracket.
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