Michigan Big 10 Schools Need to Start Scouting SEC Teams Now – Here’s Why

With the Big 10 expanding to welcome west coast teams from California, Oregon and Washington you may think that the plates would be full when it comes to scouting by the largely Midwest-based coaches. But in the always ready-for-disruption world of college football, Big 10 teams may need to quickly prepare to play SEC teams.

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The Southeastern and Big 10 have emerged as the power-power elite conferences in the still-ongoing realignment of the sport. With the biggest schools and most lucrative television rights, these two groups have wrested the power to dictate much of the future of the sport.

Now comes news that the two conferences will be meeting to discuss an agreement that would see a scheduling partnership between the two leagues. ESPN reports the talks are slated for the first full week of October and will take place in Nashville.

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A sticking point between the two: Big 10 schools play a slate of 9 conference games while the SEC plays a shorter slate (notice how many 'cupcake games' the SEC has to open each season?).

You could imagine the potential match ups: Michigan and Michigan state with slobberknockers like Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama and Georgia as part of the regular season slate.

Wider across the region, it bring the possibility of neighborly rivalries like Illinois/Missouri or the renewal of lost rivalries like Nebraska re-discovering Big 12 foes Texas and Oklahoma.

Many fans speculate that meetings like this will eventually lead to an envisioned 'super league' of power teams.

Where the conferences do agree - both would like to have 4 automatic bids each into a 14-team playoff format.

In this era of college football, the only certainty is change. Oh and money, there's money to be had. That's for certain, too.