J. Brady McCollough: Pac-12 took heat for delaying playoff expansion. But SEC came out biggest loser.
by J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times
Feb 24, 2022
4 minutes
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LOS ANGELES — For too long, the Pac-12 has served as an almost-willing national punching bag. During the weekend, as passionate college football observers processed the news that the College Football Playoff would not expand before the 2026 season, it was only natural that the sport’s opinion shapers assigned the proverbial clown suit to the West Coast’s Power Five conference.
Once again, based on the narrative being spun from the middle of the country, the league set itself up for ridicule. Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff had been trumpeting his full support of expansion, his flexibility in hammering out all the minutiae, and yet, when it came to voting, he had said no, along with the
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