Pete Fiutak of College Football News on the latest with the CFB Alliance

Key notes from Pete Fuitak interview

• I don't think we're going to be talking about a massive 40-team superconference. That's pushing it too far. This alliance does two things. One is really easy, and one is complicated. The easy one is slowing the roll of the College Football Playoff expansion. Before the SEC announced it was adding Texas and Oklahoma, this thing was going to roll through. The last thing the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC want is a 12-team playoff with six SEC teams in it. They're going to push against that. The media deals are the more complicated part. Obviously, the SEC is going to make all of this money, so these conferences want to come up with a plan that will combat that.
   
• TV as we know it isn't going to exist in the next five years. People don't watch ads anymore. People don't watch TV. Look at the NFL with Amazon and Hulu. Streaming rights are important. The Big Ten Network is a cash cow, so they want to expand that. Same with the SEC Network. It's about getting as many alumni networks as possible. With this alliance, you have many of the top media markets with large alumni bases.
   
• They might do the expanded College Football Playoff and want to share the revenue evenly, which the SEC won't want to do. They might also try to put a cap on the number of teams that can get in, which the SEC isn't going to like either. I think the SEC might be overthinking how important they are. It is the most important college football conference, but people in Chicago or Los Angeles don't care about the SEC and vice versa. You need a national base to get those gigantic streaming TV dollars.
   
• I don't think the alliance will refuse the schedule SEC teams, but if you're an SEC team, I don't know why you would schedule other Power 5 teams. The alliance might create a herd mentality against the SEC.
   
• What if the SEC wants to expand again? Clemson and Florida State don't really add a new region. You'd shoot for LA or Notre Dame. The Big Ten will try and stay as the richest conference in college athletics, and while the SEC is better at football, the Big Ten is still bigger for the moment.
   
• The SEC has the best teams. They have four of the six best teams in the preseason. If Ohio State wins a college football playoff without any SEC teams in it, does it really matter?
   
• In the business way, Kansas is the marquee team in the Big 12. Basketball does mean something, and they do have the Kansas City market. The Big Ten also cares about the AAU, and only a few SEC teams are at that level. Kansas is at that level, so it does fit in that way. They'd be the one in that group that would make the most sense for the Big Ten to add in the near future.
   
• I think the NCAA blows through this, and the College Football Playoff expansion goes forward in a couple of years. The other conferences would like to adjust their media deals as fast as possible. The NCAA is still going to be involved in all of the Olympic sports and other sports. They'll be involved more in the business side than in enforcement.
   
• Look at Texas A&M’s schedule. You get Alabama at home. I think they were one of the four best last year. If, at the end of this year, you only have one loss to Alabama again, this could be the year to get into that four. The offensive line will need some time to come together. The quarterback play will need to come, but everything else is there. A&M does need to step it up, put their foot on the gas and score in bunches. This is absolutely one of the best four or five teams in the country going in, and there is no reason not to shoot for the playoff.
   
• Think about what the tight end means for Jimbo Fisher's offense. When you have a safety valve like Jalen Wydermyer, you see what it does for a quarterback and an offense. He's one of the best in the country, if not the best in the country.