coordination from the B10 and SEC, trying to leverage their way into 8 automatic bids and a 14 team playoff.

Why would the committee even consider this a possibility?

And you have the SEC commissioner talking about eliminating the committee all together.

From the article:

"Some have also expressed interest in limiting the role of the 13-member selection committee — or eliminating it entirely.

“I think anything we can do to take the subjectivity of a committee off the table is really helpful,” the SEC source said. “We may not be able to completely get rid of subjectivity the more we can minimize it. And so Tony Petitti’s idea of multiple automatic spots for a conference has a lot of value. I’m not sure four is the right number.”"

If these talks are happening publicly, you can only imagine what's going on privately.