Why the SEC won't break away from the rest of the NCAA, college football

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The SEC is one of two powerhouses in college sports, and more specifically college football, along with the Big Ten.

But in the ever-changing world of the NCAA, there is often speculation about a secession. Would the SEC break off from the rest of college athletics as we know it? It's chatter that picks up now and again, including right now.

But the reality is that it probably wouldn't be the right call.

The reason the SEC won't break away

The reality is that the SEC, for as powerful and impressive as it is, wouldn't benefit enough from standing on its own.

"Down in Destin, there’s lots of talk about the SEC breaking away from the rest of college sports," Yahoo's Dan Wolken wrote on X on Wednesday. "But you know what the result of that would be? The certain death of the SEC."

The Athletic's Chris Vannini agrees.

"I've been saying this for months and Dan sums it up well," Vannini wrote on X. "An SEC breakaway makes no sense. It's SEC schools/players/AGs who sue over NCAA rules more than anyone else. And you don't want to create stricter internal rules that would advantage the Big Ten for not having them."

The rest of the college sports landscape helps prop up the SEC. It's a better product because of the company they have and because of the competition around them.

The SEC, on its own, wouldn't be the same entity as it is within the context of everything else.

A possible departure surely won't leave conversations entirely. But these national college football writers seem to be on the same page that it wouldn't make sense.

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