SEC ADs still deliberating on football scheduling model for 2025 season, beyond

The SEC earlier this year announced the league would stick with an eight-game conference schedule format for football in 2024, despite the league adding Texas and Oklahoma. But that call for 2024 might not be indicative of the long-term outlook.

On the “Paul Finebaum Show” on Thursday, Sankey offered an update on the discussions about a scheduling model after athletic directors in the league had met. The possibility of moving to a nine-game schedule seems to remain a real possibility.

“We swear everyone to secrecy, so I’ll be coy, which will be interesting, right? We continue to talk through membership transition issues. If you recall, we made a decision in Destin to remain at eight games for the ’24 season. We did not make any decisions about the future, today. We continue to talk about what the future may look like, 2025 and beyond,” Sankey said.

Sankey also pointed out the backdrop on Thursday as the SEC athletic directors discussed a litany of issues, including the schedule, was the Big Ten released revised conference slates for the next five years, once four new teams join the league to bring it to 18 teams.

“Interestingly enough, our Big Ten colleagues introduced their 18-team schedule in the midst of our athletic directors meeting, so I had 16 texts of that graphic sent to me. But we update our athletic directors on some of their considerations, try to clarify any information,” Sankey said.

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