The SEC passed out a pamphlet touting its 'regular season gauntlet' to reporters to try to hammer home a message

A growing divide in the sport appears to be forming between the SEC and Big Ten and then the rest of college football. While the ACC and Big 12 certainly have varying degrees of influence, the voices of the Big Ten and SEC, as the two highest-revenue-generating and most popular conferences, are certainly louder than everyone else.

Including a concept that, depending on whom you ask, is either cockeyed or clever: the SEC holding play-in games to qualify for the College Football Playoff.