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March Madness is the big picture of the college basketball season, but the day-to-day challenges of January are key in putting that picture together. Especially in the talent-loaded SEC, which currently has nine AP-ranked teams battling each other for supremacy, while also trying to stave off upset attempts. One such powerhouse meeting comes Thursday: Texas -- coming off its first loss of the season, at LSU -- travels to South Carolina (ESPN2, 7 p.m. ET).

It took a truly unprecedented season from the SEC to dethrone the Big 12 as the top conference in college basketball in 2024-25. The SEC remains fabulous, but no longer historic, and now the Big 12 has a realistic shot to regain its crown in 2025-26. It doesn't hurt that two of the four projected No. 1 seeds as the calendar flips to a new year, Arizona and Iowa State, have raced to their lofty perch with a combined 26-0 record.

Being at Mississippi State, we had some knock-down-drag-outs with them,

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In a development born of the government shutdown, the SEC announced Thursday that companies can proceed with IPOs using an obscure automatic approval process, now with the added bonus of skipping pricing information entirely. What's happening is that with 90% of SEC staff furloughed, startups can file their paperwork and have it automatically become effective after 20 days. This option always existed; firms just rarely use it because they prefer having SEC reviewers actually look at their disclosures before going public.

Sorry that that doesn't sound appealing to you folks, but I really don't care," Kelly said. "We're trying to win football games.

After years of discussion and consideration, the university presidents voted to adopt a nine-game conference schedule beginning next fall. The decision, announced Thursday, has sweeping ramifications for the regular season and the College Football Playoff. Remember those stalled negotiations over the future CFP format? The Big Ten supported a radical 16-team proposal full of automatic qualifiers while the SEC, ACC and Big 12 backed a model (dubbed 5+11) that leaned into at-large berths.

On July 16, Via Transportation announced it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), initiating the process for a proposed IPO.

If we're going to do something monumental, do something monumental. Think outside the box. It's a very easy approach. ... We've all complained. The commissioner got up and complained. Coaches got up and complained about the selection process, which is understandable. It's a human system that has no standard of picking. There's going to be implicit bias. Why would we add more to that? I don't understand that.

The SEC has sent Wells Notices to Faraday Future’s founder and president indicating impending enforcement actions due to a three-year-long fraud investigation related to their 2021 SPAC merger.

The SEC coaches began to lean towards the 5+11 model at their spring meetings in Destin, Fla., after seeing graphs and elements from a study of the playoff that simulated what would have happened in various models.

Edwin Brant Frost IV is accused of running a $140 million Ponzi scheme, targeting Republican activists through advertisements on conservative media, according to the SEC.