There's a new, nascent mutant in U.S. college sports also. The three referenced conferences have been in discussion to form an..."alliance." (?) Like the Axis Powers or the Allied Powers, they have in common only an enemy, the SEC. I bet the SEC is trembling. The Allies are comprised of forty-one schools. The SEC has got only a little peepy sixteen. That's the depth of analysis on this. "Scheduling" is a topic. What about scheduling? "Okay, we're not going to play ANYBODY outside our forty-one!" (?) The biggest aim is to out-vote the SEC on "rules." What rules? What are you talking about? The expansion of the college football playoffs is the only one mentioned in the report broken by The Athletic. You need an "alliance" of forty-one schools to do that? You guys are smart, you know seventeen beats sixteen, doncha? Even in the slave states 17 beats 16 almost every time. I don't know what they're talking about.