College Football Powerhouse May Be Expelled From Conference, Here’s Why

Posted on 09/08/2026 6:39:37 PM PDT by Red Badger

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) filed an amended complaint Tuesday morning in an Alabama federal court, showing it’s prepared to take the extraordinary step of expelling LSU from the conference.

The conference presidents have scheduled a vote on whether to expel the Tigers from the league, stemming from the school’s potential to add former NFL players to its football roster.

The SEC amended the federal lawsuit it filed against LSU last week, asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the school from interfering with the scheduled meeting of university presidents and chancellors.

The SEC is not expected to take such action, but the filing indicates the seriousness of the league as it attempts to affirm the legal right to enforce its own rules.

LSU has declined comment.

In the filing, the SEC said its presidents and chancellors will meet Thursday to decide whether to terminate LSU as an SEC member institution pursuant to Section 3.1.5 of the SEC Constitution and Bylaws, which gives the presidents the “plenary power and authority with respect to all affairs of the Conference of any type or nature whatsoever,” including the power to “[t]ake all actions specified and contemplated in Article 3 [of the Constitution] in their sole discretion.”

Under SEC rules, a vote of at least two-thirds of all the presidents is required to terminate a school’s membership.

The lawsuit argued that the school was preventing SEC officials from “exercising their First Amendment rights to govern the conference,” Fox News noted.

“The SEC and its member universities have the right to establish, through agreed-upon governance procedures, the rules under which they voluntarily compete and to expect those rules to be followed,” the SEC said in a statement, according to ESPN.

“A commitment to those rules, and to the core principles of the Southeastern Conference, is an essential element of SEC membership,” it continued.

“Today’s filing is necessary to defend that right and preserve the Conference’s ability to govern competition among its members,” the statement added.

“The SEC does not bring this action to declare any student-athlete ineligible or to prevent any student-athlete from participating in any athletic competition. This action is directed solely at the state actors who have violated, continue to violate, and threaten to further violate the SEC’s rights under the First Amendment,” the complaint read, according to Fox News.

The fight is now moving beyond the courtroom.

On Thursday, SEC officials will hold a special meeting to determine whether LSU could face expulsion from the conference. The meeting centers on concerns that school officials have lost control of Kiffin and the football program.

In the filing, SEC presidents and chancellors made it clear during a Sept. 4 meeting that they feel as though LSU has let Lane Kiffin run the football program however he wants, without guidance from the athletic department.

“Expressed great concern that Defendants Rousse and Ausberry have no meaningful control over Defendant Kiffin or the football program at LSU…The consensus at the September 4 meeting was and continues to be that LSU’s demonstrated lack of institutional control at the University level—including complete lack of control over Defendant Kiffin’s actions.”

Simply put, the SEC feels as though the comments made by Kiffin over the past few weeks regarding this matter go against conference rules, and they feel as though the LSU athletic department has allowed Kiffin to run the football program without pressure from his own bosses.

Will this actually take place?

That’s up to the member institutions, though the likelihood of the SEC expelling LSU from the conference feels pretty slim in the grand scheme of things.

1 posted on 09/08/2026 6:39:37 PM PDT by Red Badger

To: dfwgator; FamiliarFace; EEGator

SEC Ping!..................

2 posted on 09/08/2026 6:41:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)

Unfortunately, NIL money talks now in College Football. LSU is not going anywhere.

3 posted on 09/08/2026 6:41:05 PM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)

the chances of LSU getting expelled are less than the chances biden won fair and square in 2020....

Yup. The NCAA’s days of having an economic monopoly that relies on free labor is over.

5 posted on 09/08/2026 6:45:05 PM PDT by abb

I can only wish, but I don’t think the SEC will really vote out LSU. Can we get rid of Lane Kiffin? That would be nice.

6 posted on 09/08/2026 6:46:15 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)

To: crusty old prospector

Is that gonna show up on every football thread?............😆

8 posted on 09/08/2026 6:48:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)

9 posted on 09/08/2026 6:49:26 PM PDT by abb

My beeber is stuned.............

10 posted on 09/08/2026 6:53:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)

If the SEC bans ex NFL players they can find a home in the WNBA.

11 posted on 09/08/2026 6:53:51 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)

To: crusty old prospector

13 posted on 09/08/2026 6:55:37 PM PDT by hole_n_one

I have a bizarre suggestion that is not crazy. Let college football reward their players based on their value, this could be serious bucks. At the same time make them take serious academic courses and pass such to be able to play football.

Tulane in New Orleans did this many years ago, less the compensation factor. Their football team went down the crapper but Tulane was a better school for it. Tulane chose wisely.

14 posted on 09/08/2026 6:55:58 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)

To: crusty old prospector

Are you an alum?.................

15 posted on 09/08/2026 6:56:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)

Go dun that ball. Weez du win you. There’s do wheels🏎️ I got there with dm name un line . Weez gunna win.

16 posted on 09/08/2026 6:59:06 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesied set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)

I do wish these kids had a real degree behind them, and not some tutor doing their homework or taking their tests for them. Like they did in the old days. They got a college scholarship. It’s too bad NIL got involved. No degree necessary.

17 posted on 09/08/2026 7:09:51 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)

I’m normally and deliberately ignorant about professionally sports. After some research, I still don’t understand things.

Besides very dubiously berating his players, what has he done wrong?

Is he paying his players big bucks and the other schools are unhappy at the prospect of having to cough up bucks to compete?

There was a plan to get some former NFĹ players to come and play........

19 posted on 09/08/2026 7:18:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)

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