Greg Saney advocates the nine game time plan in the SEC, explains the decision-making process of college football playoff in the discussion.

A lot was discussed with regard to the future of football in the second. Part of it is still the debate between an eight games or a nine game time plan for the conference, especially now in the context of what is best for your teams to do the college football playoff.

When Greg Sankey said on Monday in the Paul Finebaum Show in “The Paul Finebaum”, the planning was part of what they spoke in New Orleans two weeks ago during the league meeting. This is with the Southeasters conference that has not yet decided which format is best suited for you in 2026.

“Monday, Tuesday was only a second athletics director … We talked about football planning,” said Sankey. “I don't think it's a secret that we have to find out. Much of the discussion is about playing eight or nine games. This passes an analysis of the college football playoff and examines what happened in the first year of a playoff from Twelve Team. “

Finebaum Saney continued to ask about her planning

Follow the additions of Texas And Oklahoma Last summer, the SEC continued a schedule with eight games, but without the respective departments. That played last autumn and will do this autumn again. From there you have to decide what will work for you in the conference, for your non -conference and how all this is related to the CFP.

“Well, the decision of our time plan refers to the season of 25.26. So we solved '25. This is a schedule with eight games. I repeatedly said that we actually wanted eight games for three years, eight games, a kind of single division, if you like, under a single format for our planning 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, simply look back and talk about what happened, ”said Sankey. “Well, that took place in the week before the meeting of College Football Playoff Management Committee, in which I learned a lot. You have seen some changes in some non-conference planning decisions that took place after our meeting in New Orleans. “

Sankey has completed the extended playoff's debut and said that the total amount of losses is what the selection committee focused on when it comes to those in the room. If you switch to a nine-game time plan, Sankey's preference would either risk more losses for teams who try to make the playoff or plan them to be a easier slate in the non-conference to avoid early in the season.

You have to take all of this into account and at the same time do not affect the chances of several teams in the conference that try to make it into the College Football playoff

“If you look forward to our way forward, let's take a look at the fact that the next few months are really important to collect information, either talk about possibilities or obstacles that are to the extent that we can answer. How the priority of the bowl qualification in the future? This is still an important topic, ”said Saney. “Understand the attempt to understand how the selection committee made for the CFP decisions is really important. One of the problems in the room for athletics directors is that it seemed to be too important to the number of rights on the right – the number of losses. How do we understand what this means for our schedule? “

“I am one who said that I really think we should try to move towards a conference plan with nine games. I think that can be positive for many reasons. They observe the interest in conference games. But not if that leads to losing opportunities, ”said Saney. “I can call some associations for this and that is part of our thinking for our own schedule. This does not necessarily protect (playoff) decision making, but I think it is important to understand how selection decisions are made, and we only have a year of this experience if we make another decision on our schedule. “