1) Get a TV, and talking heads, contract with ESPN

2) Get ESPN to promo your conference

3) Create a ranking which presumes no loss is a bad loss because you played a conference member

SPOT ON! On3's playoff projections are out. The SEC again puts five teams into the PO. 🤮 This with nine conference games?

For this to happen, many of those deep SEC opponents have to drink milk through a nipple, right?

No. 9 seed (!) Oregon loses to Texas in the champ game. 🤬

Horse Hockey!

H, B1G man Bret is on your side! "The SEC wants to live in 2025." 😁

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Illinois' Bret Bielema joked the SEC wants 'to live in 2005 forever' during his opening comments at the 2026 Big Ten Media Days in Chicago.

ESPN/ABC has the broadcast rights for almost all of the SEC games on TV.

Want to boost your viewership/advertising revenue to be able to make payments for that TV contract?

Create an "analytics ranking" which places all the teams in the conference in the Top 20.

Last bowl season:

Miami (Fla.) 10, Texas A&M 3

Iowa 34, Vanderbilt 27

Wake Forest 43, Mississippi St 29

Houston 38, LSU 35

Illinois 30, Tennessee 28

Virginia 13, Missouri 7

Indiana 38, Alabama 3

Texas 41, Michigan 27