Wbrz iconWbrzSep 29, 2026 ~1 min source read

As top talent slowly leaks from SEC territory, the league looks to stop a three-year title slide

a three-year stretch during which the Big Ten Conference has amassed three straight national titles while the SEC hasn't landed a team in the championship game. There are dozens of ways to explain that recent title gulf between the nation's two top conferences and even more ways to excuse it, with almost all the reasons embedded somewhere in the world of the changes wrought by NIL.

As top talent slowly leaks from SEC territory, the league looks to stop a three-year title slide

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a three-year stretch during which the Big Ten Conference has amassed three straight national titles while the SEC hasn't landed a team in the championship game.

There are dozens of ways to explain that recent title gulf between the nation's two top conferences and even more ways to excuse it, with almost all the reasons embedded somewhere in the world of the...

the first recruiting year after NIL rules as we know them were fully established.

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a three-year stretch during which the Big Ten Conference has amassed three straight national titles while the SEC hasn't landed a team in the championship game. There are dozens of ways to explain that recent title gulf between the nation's two top conferences and even more ways to excuse it, with almost all the reasons embedded somewhere in the world of the changes wrought by NIL. the first recruiting year after NIL rules as we know them were fully established.

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  • That translates to 99 players staying close to home in 2022 down to 78 for 2027.
  • Big Ten schools picked up nine of those players in 2022, a number projected to rise to 22 next year.
  • This is not necessarily a Big Ten raid of five-star studs in the SEC's traditional recruiting hotbeds.
  • It does suggest a slow drain of talent that includes well-known players such as Heisman Trophy favorite Jeremi...

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