The modest waves crashing on Miramar Beach last week had nothing on those being churned up in the meeting rooms of a resort hotel a few yards from the sand.

When those figurative waves crest and crash, perhaps in the next few months, the complexion of college football will be transformed yet again.

The most glaring takeaway from that annual gathering of SEC coaches, administrators and league executives? More radical change looms in a sport that already has undergone a significant makeover in the post-COVID era. Think 16-game playoff, an increase from an eight- to nine-game SEC schedule, a decrease from two annual transfer-portal windows to one.

Granted, the SEC doesn’t possess the power to make all these decisions on its own, but as one of the two most powerful football leagues in the c

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