Indiana's Curt Cignetti roasts the SEC as ESPN starts their promotional campaign already: 'we don't whine'

The 2026 college football season hasn't even started, and the war of words and messaging is already ramping up. The SEC this year moves to nine conference games, a large shift that will necessarily impact win-loss records and takes away one of their biggest advantages over the Big Ten or other nine-game conferences. As a result, at SEC media days recently, several coaches and even conference commissioner Greg Sankey started their promotional and excuse campaign for the College Football Playoff.