In a world of constant change, where do we draw the line and what paves? Today is a dark day for truly passionate football fans as two of the most iconic conferences in college football tease a partnership soon. As per reports, the Big Ten and SEC Athletic Directors will discuss a potential partnership in football schedules, along with their preferences for automated bids in the next version of the CFP.

While there’s not much to be said about the official decisions, an in-person meeting is to be held in Nashville next week to discuss the prospects that come with such a partnership. With that being said, the fans will not likely receive this change with a warm reception as it’ll result in a lot of varied issues over the players’ health along with the essence of the sport itself.

Earlier this year, both conferences announced a joint advisory group made up of the university presidents, chancellors, and athletic directors. A source from the Big Ten conference was heard saying, “There is hope that we can definitely move the needle and make some progress on different things.” But if the fans themselves don’t welcome such a major change to the sport, what good is a partnership and its benefits?

As per Barstool Big12, which is a direct affiliate of Barstool Sports, tweeted out the headline and captioned it with, “RIP College Football.” A pivotal part of the potential agreement is that it would be guiding the future of the college football playoff which may or may not include “maximum number of postseason opportunities for the conference while saying bowl games aren’t even considered in those opportunities.” As such, the fans took to the comments to voice out their protests and to complain about the staining of the magic of the sport.

The fans react poorly to the new SEC-Big 10 partnership

When it comes to football, the fans prefer it to remain the same without a lot of change. It is a sport that is beloved by the nation! Hence, inducing a change that could possibly ruin the match-ups in the FBS 1 conference isn’t being digressed by the fans too well and they’ve stormed X with their concerns.

This fan blamed Greg Sankey, the commissioner of the SEC, for ruining the sport of college football and wrote, “When college football dies, just remember that it was Greg Sankey that killed it.”

Next, this user pointed out the adverse implications such a partnership will have over the survival of the NCAA and commented, “The cost of inevitably dissolving the NCAA is that college football will be objectively worse”

This person wrote at length about how this partnership will eventually lead to the death of the SEC and the Big 10 due to its objectives to compete with the NFL. The comment read, “Not at all. This will be the death of the SEC and BIG10. College football works because it covers territory not covered by the NFL. Now they get to compete head to head with the NFL with an inferior product.”

Lastly, this person chose to take a trip down nostalgia lane and claimed that the death of college football occurred when the power conferences were formed in the first place. They wrote, “No. College football died when the transfer portal was opened and so-called power conferences were formed giving too many teams more advantages than they already had.”

Thus, it is unclear as to whether this partnership will eventually lay out a set of incentives for either conference in the future but as of now, the mood of the community is sour as they do not seem to care about this SEC-Big 10 pairing at all.