SEC’s long-term decision on football schedule unlikely this week
1 year, 6 months ago

SEC’s long-term decision on football schedule unlikely this week

New York Times  

DESTIN, Fla. — A long-term decision on the SEC football schedule appears unlikely this week, based on the comments of several athletic directors during Wednesday’s portion of SEC meetings. “We’re not gonna shrivel up and die if we don’t know what the schedule for the next four years is,” Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yuracheck said. Asked if there was enough information to vote on a new schedule, Byrne answered: “No.” But when asked if the conference needs to go through the 2024 season, with the 12-team Playoff field, to make a decision, he said he didn’t think so. “I know that Commissioner Sankey is in negotiations with partners, and he’s going to give himself all the opportunities to put together the best schedule,” Kelly said.

Games Director Texas Schedule 2024 Sec Kelly Conference Espn Byrne Decision Athletic Tanner Sankey Greg Sankey  football  longterm  week  unlikely  decision  sec  conference  athletic  going  games  director  secs  know  2024  schedule  season

History of this topic

SEC contenders handling early schedule of beefier foes instead of cupcakes to boost playoff resumes
3 months, 1 week ago

SEC contenders handling early schedule of beefier foes instead of cupcakes to boost playoff resumes

Associated Press  

One unknown to scheduling non-conference opponents years in advance is whether those future foes are as attractive when game day finally arrives as they were when the contract was signed. So, I’m certainly glad we were able to play a really good team, a good program like Clemson.” Even with a field featuring the five highest-ranked conference champions and seven …

12-team College Football Playoff puts even more emphasis on schedule strength, for better or worse
3 months, 3 weeks ago

12-team College Football Playoff puts even more emphasis on schedule strength, for better or worse

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally. AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good …

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey: ‘Time to update your expectations for what college athletics can be’
5 months, 1 week ago

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey: ‘Time to update your expectations for what college athletics can be’

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! DALLAS — Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey unofficially opened the league’s first football season as 16-team league Monday in a massive hotel ballroom in North Texas, a new setting for SEC Media Days at a time when everything about college sports seems to be in flux. …

SEC still looking for more ESPN money to go to 9 conference games
6 months, 3 weeks ago

SEC still looking for more ESPN money to go to 9 conference games

New York Times  

DESTIN, Fla. — The SEC office hasn’t given up trying to get more money from ESPN in exchange for adding a ninth conference game. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said the conference had “conversations with ESPN’s leadership a couple weeks ago just to re-engage” on the schedule, including to “help them understand that if we stay at eight what’s absent from …

Roster sizes, the future of walk-ons and other topics on minds of SEC’s football coaches
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Roster sizes, the future of walk-ons and other topics on minds of SEC’s football coaches

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The coaches convened Tuesday for the league’s spring meetings with potential roster issues among the questions on their minds following a settlement agreement involving the NCAA and the five biggest conferences. Elko argued that an 85-player limit, which would essentially eliminate walk-ons, would be “something that’s …

What’s on tap for SEC meetings: 4 storylines to keep an eye on in Destin, Fla.
6 months, 4 weeks ago

What’s on tap for SEC meetings: 4 storylines to keep an eye on in Destin, Fla.

New York Times  

DESTIN, Fla. — The SEC convenes Tuesday for its annual spring meetings, and the good news for those involved is the future football schedule is not the main topic. Whether to go to nine conference games or stay at eight seems quaint now compared with the heavy reality that SEC presidents, athletic directors, coaches and commissioner Greg Sankey must confront …

SEC commissioner Sankey takes in his 1st Texas-Oklahoma game year before the schools join his league
1 year, 2 months ago

SEC commissioner Sankey takes in his 1st Texas-Oklahoma game year before the schools join his league

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I’m a fan of college football, so I’ve wanted to be here,” Sankey said. Sankey said they have a healthy relationship and had a “really cordial conversation.” Sankey said the game at Cotton Bowl Stadium, with the fans are split 50-50 burnt orange and crimson, is …

Predicting conference realignment’s unpredictable future: 5 scenarios for 2033 and beyond
1 year, 5 months ago

Predicting conference realignment’s unpredictable future: 5 scenarios for 2033 and beyond

New York Times  

Four years ago, The Athletic admirably — and, as it turns out, foolishly — attempted to predict the future of college sports when my colleague Stewart Mandel took a stab at what the conference landscape would look like five or 10 years into the future. “But I also know that the SEC can’t sit still and allow the Big Ten …

SEC to play 8-game conference football schedule in 2024; long-term model still TBD
1 year, 6 months ago

SEC to play 8-game conference football schedule in 2024; long-term model still TBD

Associated Press  

DESTIN, Fla. — The Southeastern Conference will play eight league games in 2024 when it expands to 16 teams with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas, but beyond that the schedule model is still to be determined. Commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday, the second-to-last day of the SEC’s spring meetings, that the conference’s university presidents unanimously voted to implement a …

What SEC football coaches think about the schedule debate
1 year, 6 months ago

What SEC football coaches think about the schedule debate

New York Times  

DESTIN, Fla. — The SEC meetings sometimes can be where football coaches go to get bad news. Florida’s Billy Napier: “Is the strength of schedule going to be weighed in a fashion that would benefit the SEC if we played nine games? “I think Commissioner Sankey makes a good point, we’d be the only Power 5 conference with an eight-game …

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on advantages of 9-game football schedule format
1 year, 6 months ago

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on advantages of 9-game football schedule format

New York Times  

DESTIN, Fla. — SEC commissioner Greg Sankey privately has made his preference for a football schedule format clear to his members. Georgia president Jere Morehead, whose school is seen as favoring nine games, said last week that getting more “compensation” from the conference’s media partner — ESPN — was needed if it would add a ninth conference game. … If …

Schultz: If SEC doesn’t go to 9-game schedule, criticism is justified
1 year, 6 months ago

Schultz: If SEC doesn’t go to 9-game schedule, criticism is justified

New York Times  

ATLANTA — The czars of the SEC congregate this week on a beach resort, and they could begin the first meeting and every annual meeting the same: “Gentleman, we’re all rich and we rule the world, or at least the only part that matters to us. But there’s a lot of media on the other side of this door, so …

SEC should have its cake and make easy choice with football schedule format
1 year, 7 months ago

SEC should have its cake and make easy choice with football schedule format

New York Times  

To truly understand the complexity of the choice the SEC faces in regard to its future scheduling, imagine you’re at a fine, white-tablecloth restaurant, and you’ve just finished your entree. Or the SEC can choose an eight-game conference schedule, which allows for one annual rivalry for each team and cycles the rest of the conference through twice every four years. …

Where things stand with SEC football scheduling format as decision time nears
1 year, 7 months ago

Where things stand with SEC football scheduling format as decision time nears

New York Times  

For the second consecutive year, the SEC is set to decide on its future scheduling format — eight or nine games — at its spring meetings in Destin, Fla. Talking to several people with ties to the conference who were granted anonymity to speak about the discussion, here is where things stand: The decision to make For a year now, …

USC switches strategies to deal with daunting 2023 football schedule
1 year, 11 months ago

USC switches strategies to deal with daunting 2023 football schedule

LA Times  

Caleb Williams scores a touchdown in USC’s 48-45 win over UCLA on Nov. 19, 2022 at the Rose Bowl. Instead of scheduling another nonconference opponent for its Week 3 opening, USC will begin its 2023 campaign with a Week Zero matchup against San Jose State on Aug. 26 at the Coliseum. By taking on an earlier season opener, USC was …

Dykes, Smart stump for changes to recruiting calendar
1 year, 11 months ago

Dykes, Smart stump for changes to recruiting calendar

Associated Press  

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The College Football Playoff championship on Monday night is the biggest game of TCU coach Sonny Dykes’ career. Dykes and Georgia coach Kirby Smart called for changes to the condensed and crowded college football calendar during their final news conference before the top-ranked Bulldogs and third-ranked Horned Frogs play for the national title. “There has not …

CFP board chair: New format ideally in place by June 2023
2 years, 6 months ago

CFP board chair: New format ideally in place by June 2023

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The CFP management committee, comprised of 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director, spent the final six months of 2021 trying to come to unanimous agreement on a 12-team plan — but never got there. “Whether or not that comes back and how this …

After early CFP expansion fails, job only gets tougher
2 years, 10 months ago

After early CFP expansion fails, job only gets tougher

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “Seems like everyone says they’re committed to expand the CFP, but it’s hard to believe that because we can’t expand the CFP,” Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill told The AP. Relatively new commissioners in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC, already leery of a process that …

Column: Who can stop SEC from swallowing college football?
2 years, 11 months ago

Column: Who can stop SEC from swallowing college football?

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! INDIANAPOLIS — As another season winds down in the frigid heart of Big Ten country, there’s no doubt who runs college football. “If we are going to move off the four-team format, the proposed 12-team model works well and compared to others, works best,” Sankey said …

SEC shuffles games, pushes back Arkansas-Missouri, UT-Vandy
4 years, 1 month ago

SEC shuffles games, pushes back Arkansas-Missouri, UT-Vandy

Associated Press  

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference has shuffled its schedule, pushing back the Arkansas-Missouri and Tennessee-Vanderbilt games that had been set for Saturday. The league announced Monday that it has postponed the Arkansas-Missouri game because of a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and the resulting quarantining within the Arkansas program. “As we continue to adapt to the current realities, …

College football in a pandemic? SEC releases its 2020 season schedule
4 years, 4 months ago

College football in a pandemic? SEC releases its 2020 season schedule

LA Times  

With the same force that it’s known for on the football field, the SEC continues its attempt to plow through the COVID-19 pandemic as it released its 10-game, conference-only schedule Monday. The Sept. 26 start date was chosen in part to allow time for people to return to campus and assimilate before beginning competition, SEC Ccommissioner Greg Sankey said on …

SEC will play conference-only football schedule this season
4 years, 4 months ago

SEC will play conference-only football schedule this season

LA Times  

The SEC will play only conference games this season, joining the Pac-12 and Big Ten in making such a decision. The Southeastern Conference will play only league games in 2020, a decision that pushes major college football closer to a regular season in which none of the power conferences cross paths. The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced their intentions to …

Discover Related