We all should have known that once word of a new college football playoff structure leaked out back in June that there was something stronger at play. Those forces became clear when the Houston Chronicle broke news about a month later about plans for Texas and Oklahoma to bolt the Big XII and join the SEC. Those moves have since become official, and dominoes that we all had hoped were settled were set in motion again.
With the Big XII hanging in the wind, the question has been what the other power conferences will do to try and combat the fact that the SEC is building a 16-team behemoth that, at the very least, could dominate college football in terms of attention for the foreseeable future.