Pete Thamel on ESPN: "Those in the SEC office wouldn't be eager to add Florida State, but the wouldn't be eager to allow the Big Ten to plant a flag in Tallahassee either."

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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/InVodkaVeritas on 2023-12-23 19:45:36.

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He said this during the Halftime segment of the Troy-Duke game.

This is reminiscent of Greg Sankey’s comments on Texas and Oklahoma joining, saying that if they didn’t add them someone else (the Big Ten implied) would have.

A Big Ten administrator similarly said on USC/UCLA that if they didn’t move to add them “someone else would and it would be a missed opportunity.”

The two conferences clearly fear one thing more than anything else: the other conference claiming a school over them.