When talking about a possible new College Football Playoffs format, Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti pushed for his preferred method to determine the field at his opening speech for Big Ten Media Days. As part of that push, he offered up an olive branch to the SEC to get that conference commissioner, Greg Sankey, back on the same page as the B1G.
Earlier in the morning, Petitti began a full-court push for a 16-team format using a 4-4-2-2-1 model rather than the 5-plus-11 model that the SEC and the rest of college football would like.