Longhorns Daily News: Greg Sankey announces his support for SEC programs moving to nine-game football schedule

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Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey recently told the Paul Finebaum Show that he supports the league moving from an eight-game to a nine-game football schedule.

“Monday, Tuesday was SEC Athletics Directors only…We did talk about football scheduling,” said Sankey, according to Inside Texas. “I don’t think it’s a secret that we have to figure out ’26. Much of the discussion is about should we play eight or nine games. That does transition into an analysis of the College Football Playoff, looking at what happened the first year of a twelve-team playoff.”

“The decision of our schedule relates to the ’26 season. So we resolved ’25. That’s an eight-game schedule. I’ve said repeatedly we wanted to actually go three years of sixteen-team, eight-game, kind of single division, if you will, under a single format for our scheduling and the expansion of the College Football Playoff. So this was the first opportunity for our head coaches and our athletics directors to gather in a room, just look back, and talk about what happened,” Sankey added. “That took place the week before the College Football Playoff Management Committee Meeting where I learned a lot. You’ve seen some changes in some non-conference scheduling decisions that have taken place after our New Orleans meeting.”

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