Big Ten crushing SEC in elite talent at the 2026 NFL Combine
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What insights do Bill and Doug share about their experience at the 2026 NFL Combine?
Welcome back to the Bill & Doug Show. Doug LaMaurice and Bill Landis. We're back home. We were in Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday. We are back in Columbus on Friday. But we want to talk a little bit more about the NFL Combine, Bill Landis. We've been writing about it at our sub stack, BillAndDougOSU.substack.com. We did a big Wednesday show for the sub stack there. We did a Thursday show here on this channel for podcasts and YouTube feeds where I think maybe my mic wasn't working correctly, and I apologize for that. But I'm coming through loud and clear now.
Sounds great now. Yeah.
Okay. I'm not sure what the deal is with college football media. I don't know if people are afraid to touch this story, but I think it's time for us to talk about what I still think from a college. We talk about this with the combine a lot. It's an NFL story and a college football story. And the way that NFL media and college football media cover the NFL combine is different, right? And NFL reporters are there to find out, hey, who are the new guys that are going to be on the teams that we cover? And that's really important. But for college football, there's a lot of other different things that go on. And this story, I don't know why it's gone so under the radar, but I think it's time for somebody to talk about it.
I find it disappointing. There's a lot of things in college football these days that I think disappoint a lot of us. The fact that the SEC is boycotting the NFL combine, I think is a really difficult thing for college football to manage. I don't know if they're doing their own combine or what, but man, it would be great to have those guys there.
Well, I don't think we're the idea of the SEC doing its own combine, frankly, quite possible. Doesn't it make 12 do its own combine or has in the past like the last couple of years? Yeah.
Well, they sort of do like a combined pro day rather than going to like everybody individual part of they all go to like the Cowboys practice facility because that's where everything happens, I think. And they do like a combined one of those.
It's not in lieu of sending any Big Ten players to the NFL Combine. It is in addition to. But I do, yeah, maybe the SEC will just stop coming to Indianapolis because I couldn't help but notice that, I don't know, there weren't a lot of them.
I thought this was like the 1984 Olympics, which happened when I was... 10 years old, and it was very exciting to watch America dominate in Los Angeles in 1984. But like the Eastern Bloc countries weren't there and Russia wasn't there. And so that's what I thought this was. That it's like, hey, look, all the best players at the Combine are from the Big Ten and the ACC and the Big 12. I assumed it was because the SEC guys. Are you telling me the SEC players were at the Combine?
They were eligible to be there. In fact, you did talk to one. I know for a fact.
I talked to one who was in the SEC for one year after he was at Virginia Tech for three years.
How do the Big Ten and SEC differ in terms of player talent at the NFL Combine?
And he's the best player in the SEC. And he was there for one year. And they stole him from Virginia Tech. I am here to just say that if you didn't think the sec was dead, Sonny styles and Orville Reese dug that grave in Indianapolis, the sec is officially dead. They are irrelevant. The sport has passed them by and Andy staples, our good buddy and everybody else whose last line of defense about the sec as well, I guess Well, I guess maybe we shouldn't even listen to NFL GMs because I just thought their jobs were on the line to pick the best players. And the SEC has the most players drafted. Irrelevant. The SEC is barely a part of the discussion when you talk about the best players in this 2026 NFL draft.
I don't know if it's a blip. I don't know if it's a trend. But I'm telling you, you could... I didn't even ask the SEC guy about any SEC stuff. It was just like, oh, your brother. It's Mansoor Delane, who was at Virginia Tech and then transferred to LSU for one year and was a very good player. Now his brother, Fahim, who is transferring from Ohio State to LSU.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What insights do Bill and Doug share about their experience at the 2026 NFL Combine?
0:08–2:55
2
How do the Big Ten and SEC differ in terms of player talent at the NFL Combine?
2:55–4:55
3
What are the implications of SEC players boycotting the NFL Combine?
4:55–8:29
4
Which Big Ten players stood out at the Combine and why?
8:29–12:51
5
What statistics highlight the Big Ten's dominance over the SEC in this draft?
12:51–16:47
6
How do transfers impact the talent pool in college football?
16:47–19:33
7
What trends are emerging in the recruitment of players between the North and South?
19:33–23:59
8
What conclusions do Bill and Doug draw about the future of college football talent?
23:59–47:32
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