The Athletic: SEC Exploring to move to 9 Conference Games
Multiple sources from various SEC schools confirmed this weekend that a nine-game conference schedule is one of the possibilities the league will consider as it works to assimilate Oklahoma and Texas. How exactly that would look also would be open for discussion. The league could assign permanent opponents to each team and rotate through the remaining teams. The league could split into four, four-team pods and rotate the schedule that way. The league also could keep two divisions, though there is fear that might seem like two separate conferences. “Everything is on the table,” one source said.
The move to nine games probably would be welcome to people in the Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 who grew increasingly frustrated because SEC schools played one fewer conference game than the schools in their leagues. This allowed SEC schools to schedule an easier nonconference game and allowed the schools to break up their schedules in a more manageable way.
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Posted: 08/02/2021 at 11:53AM