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Greg Sankey is doing his job. It’s just that sometimes, doing that job leads to him saying things that simply aren’t true.
On Monday night, while most of the country was dealing with heartburn and indigestion after celebrating the unofficial start of summer in the United States, Sankey was in Florida speaking to the media ahead of this week’s SEC Spring Meetings. It’s there that Sankey will listen to the heads of the 16 schools he’s commissioner of and set a course for what’s best for the SEC. That’s his job, and he’s damn good at it.
Of considerable concern for the league at the moment is shaping the future of the sport through the College Football Playoff. While the 2025 version will remain at 12 teams with (thankfully) restructured seeding, expansion is inevitable. Whether it will be 14 or 16 teams is unclear, as is the format that will decide who occupies those 14 to 16 slots.
Rest assured, Sankey will do everything he can to make sure the SEC is well-represented. He made that clear while speaking to reporters. While Sankey said many logical and interesting things, one quote stood out and caused my eyelid to twitch.
“It’s clear that not losing becomes in many ways more important than beating the University of Georgia, which two of our teams that were left out did,” he said in reference to the belief that strength of schedule was not taken into consideration when choosing last year’s playoff field. That’s why three three-loss SEC teams, Alabama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina, were left out for programs simply unworthy of being considered great, like Indiana and SMU.
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Author : Tom Fornelli
Publish date : 2025-05-27 10:31:00
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