https://selloutcrowd.com/oklahoma-state/...t-a-price/

"...With a 3-3-2-2 format, plus one reserved for the mid-majors, that still leaves three openings. All likely to go to the Big Ten and SEC.

Should the Big 12 not have been in take-what-you-can-get mode?

“The 12-team playoff, 14-team, whatever, I think that’s great,” Gundy said. “Whoever’s paying the money’s going to make those decisions, but everybody should get a fair shot. And you can’t just (in) preseason say, this group gets three or four in. What if it doesn’t work out that way?

“I’ve got respect for every conference, but here’s the deal. If you’re good enough, you’ll get in. Why do you have to do it preseason?”...


Doing away with minimums for each conference, be it the 3-3-2-2 model or something else, avoids the stigma of a class system. The 3-3-2-2 plan officially would have created a divide. The House of Lords and the House of Commons. An upper class and a middle class. The other side of the tracks.

Those designations already exist, of course, but they aren’t official. They aren’t documented. The Big Ten and SEC get more television money, determined by the marketplace, but there is no official decree of status.

“Nobody wants the perception that these schools get this, this, this and this, and these schools don’t,” Gundy said. “But right now, that perception’s out there.

“ESPN and Fox and Peacock and Amazon and whoever’s minding TV rights, they can pay who they want, because it’s free enterprise. But if we’re going to set rules and standards, it needs to be equal for everybody in my opinion, if you want the strength of college football as high as it is for a long period of time.”...

Sankey has been on record as saying he feels a duty to keep college football a national sport. That diluting the number of relevant programs is not good for the industry.

Of course, the SEC and Big Ten moves of the last few years have run counter to that aim...."


I'm with Gundy. 1 berth guaranteed per conference.