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Originally Posted by alnorth
I don't think its obvious at all, yet. The SEC did not need to partner with the Big 12 to make sure their conference champ has a good enough rating to qualify as a top-4 champ.
That game is their leverage against the Big 10 and PAC 12. Maybe they'll compromise on a weird 2+2 hybrid or 3+1 hybrid, but the SEC can now say "this 4 conference champ thing is bullcrap, we obviously can't agree, so lets just give up and do the plus-one plan"
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They didn't need to partner with the Big 12 to make sure that they were a top 4 conference. They partnered with the Big 12 to make it 100% certain that there are 4 power conferences and everybody else. If there were 5 conferences that could claim to be in the conversation, there would be problems. There is now no way to deny that the ACC is in the conversation.