A strong leader looks out for the meek and less fortunate, and in that vein, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey tried to help the Pac-12.
A once mighty conference that fell from relevance, the Pac-12 has produced two qualifiers for the College Football Playoff in the playoff’s eight years. Last season, the ACC and Big 12 joined the Pac-12 as Power Five conferences that weren’t powerful enough to supply a playoff qualifier.
Sankey joined a few other college sports leaders last year to devise a plan that would rectify that, while also creating more spots for Sankey’s SEC: a 12-team playoff featuring automatic bids for the top six conference champions, plus six at-large bids.