{"id":96218,"date":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96218\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:02:10","slug":"sec-network-host-peter-burns-says-big-ten-football-is-a-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96218\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Network host Peter Burns says Big Ten football is a Ponzi scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Ten has won the past two college football national championships. However, that doesn\u2019t mean that everyone in the sport is impressed with the league.<\/p>\n

SEC Network host Peter Burns took to Twitter recently to blast the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

The original Tweet from ESPN\u2019s Adam Rittenberg stated that \u201cno league dominates the media discussion like the SEC.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rittenberg added that the move by the SEC to talk so much is smart, \u201cespecially coming off of a season where the league was objectively a bit down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Peter Burns didn\u2019t agree with that take.<\/p>\n

“The Big 10 is quiet because they understand over half of their league is hot garbage and only prop up the small amount of true quality contenders they have,\u201c Burns said. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

\u201dThey run a highly successful CFB Ponzi scheme.”<\/p>\n

The conversation on Twitter came after there was plenty of talk about the future of college football and the College Football Playoff this past week.<\/p>\n

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey made headlines throughout the week as he spoke about what the SEC prefers moving forward. <\/p>\n

He responded to comments made by ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips and Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark in particular after they said that they are concerned with what is best for the good of college football.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need lectures from others about good of the game. I don\u2019t lecture others about good of the game,\u201d Greg Sankey said<\/a>. \u201cAnd coordinating press releases about good of the game, you know, OK, you can issue your press statement, but I\u2019m actually looking for ideas to move us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2025 College Football Playoff format is set with 12 teams seeded 1-12. But the format for 2026 and beyond is to be determined.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of options on the table and Sankey spoke multiple times this week about what the SEC is considering. While commissioners from the ACC, Big 12 and SEC were outspoken, the Big Ten has remained quiet on the subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I have a responsibility to push, as well, and I think my membership has a responsibility and the desire to push me. And that is a hard issue. You wanna go inside what it\u2019s like to sit in this role? I think about the responsibility I have here, and I think about the responsibility more broadly all the time,\u201d Sankey said. \u201cYesterday I said we don\u2019t apologize here. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I go back to the College Football Playoff, I\u2019m open to ideas, there\u2019s just not a lot of incoming. My phone\u2019s not ringing off the hook with, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s another way to look at it.\u2019 And so we\u2019ll continue to be thoughtful. We\u2019ll continue to try to provide perspective and information to our members and help them guide the decision. And ultimately I recognize I\u2019m the one who ends up typically in front of the podium explaining not just myself but ourselves. So good luck to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Ten has won the past two college football national championships. However, that doesn\u2019t mean that everyone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,1379,7,575,1382],"class_list":{"0":"post-96218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-ducks-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-oregon-ducks","12":"tag-oregon-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114609425279338232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}