One spot in a ranking is the difference between Ole Miss playing a first-round playoff game in Oxford and Ole Miss getting on a plane. Then the Senate changed the business the whole sport runs on. The structure, from the College Football Playoff's own site: 12 teams, seeds 1-4 sit out the first round, seeds 5-8 play at their own stadium, seeds 9-12 travel, and the No. 9 seed travels to the No. 8 seed. First-round games are December 18-19. The honest part: the AP and coaches polls have no input into any of that. The only ranking that assigns a seed is the selection committee's, and its first release is November 3. Nobody is seeded anything today. Then segment two. The Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act 77-22 on Monday night. Both Mississippi senators voted yes. It sets one federal NIL standard over the state patchwork, codifies revenue sharing with the cap raised to roughly $50 million a school, declines to make athletes employees, and gives the NCAA antitrust protection to enforce transfer and tampering rules. The counterweight on both: a team that just gave up 52 points hasn't earned a home playoff game, and a bill that passed one chamber is not law — the House pulled its own version in May and isn't back in force until after the midterms. Does a federal cap help Ole Miss or hurt it? Tell me in the comments. Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #CollegeFootballPlayoff #NIL #SEC #RebelNation #CollegeFootball
One spot in a ranking is the difference between Ole Miss playing a first-round playoff game in Oxford and Ole Miss getting on a plane. Then the Senate changed the business the whole sport runs on.
The structure, from the College Football Playoff's own site: 12 teams, seeds 1-4 sit out the first round, seeds 5-8 play at their own stadium, seeds 9-12 travel, and the No. 9 seed travels to the No. 8 seed. First-round games are December 18-19.
The honest part: the AP and coaches polls have no input into any of that. The only ranking that assigns a seed is the selection committee's, and its first release is November 3. Nobody is seeded anything today.
Then segment two. The Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act 77-22 on Monday night. Both Mississippi senators voted yes. It sets one federal NIL standard over the state patchwork, codifies revenue sharing with the cap raised to roughly $50 million a school, declines to make athletes employees, and gives the NCAA antitrust protection to enforce transfer and tampering rules.
The counterweight on both: a team that just gave up 52 points hasn't earned a home playoff game, and a bill that passed one chamber is not law — the House pulled its own version in May and isn't back in force until after the midterms.
Does a federal cap help Ole Miss or hurt it? Tell me in the comments.
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #CollegeFootballPlayoff #NIL #SEC #RebelNation #CollegeFootball