College Football: ACC-B1G-P12 alliance is exactly what the SEC didn’t need

The College Football world got a little more interesting over the weekend when it was reported that the ACC, Pac-12 and Big Ten were having ‘high-level conversations’ about the potential of forming an alliance.

Several outlets reported Friday evening that the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 had multiple conversations about forming the alliance to combat the SEC’s growing power.

The alliance could include scheduling and would essentially create a Power-4 system in which three-fourths of those four conferences would be allied with one another.

An alliance is exactly what the SEC didn’t need in its quest for College Football domination

There’s no doubt that the SEC has been involved in some shady shenanigans over the course of these last few months.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey sat in a room and met with Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby several times as the two were a part of the committee that recommended an expanded CFB Playoff.  The whole time, he knew that the two biggest brands in Bowlsby’s conference– Texas and Oklahoma– were about to jump ship to his own conference.

This discussed alliance between the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 is the response to the underhanded nature that the SEC has operated within. And it’s exactly what the SEC didn’t need.

The SEC will still generate plenty of revenue and the schools are going to get their payouts. But, when it comes to the power that the conference wields, it’s about to take a hit.

The SEC can march to the beat of its own drum if it wants to, but how far is that going to take it?

The terms of the expanded College Football Playoff are going to be dictated now by the ACC, Pac-12 and Big Ten. Not the SEC.

Those conferences are going to now bring major voting power to decisions made within the Autonomy 5 and the SEC is going to have to make the decision to either listen to those other conferences and take a step back or the conference is going to have to step out on its own and hope those 16 brands are strong enough to create their own league.