Shane Beamer would support nine-game SEC schedule if CFP format concerns addressed

Count South Carolina coach Shane Beamer among the supporters within the Southeastern Conference of football moving to nine conference games, albeit with a caveat.

Beamer, whose Gamecocks just missed the cut of making last year’s College Football Playoff, knows better than anyone how challenging the SEC schedule already is, let alone adding in a ninth conference game. Beamer supports the conference adding another game but has some questions about the benefit in doing so in a system he believes didn’t reward the toughest schedules last season when it left out South Carolina, Alabama and Ole Miss from the playoff field.

“Certainly I’m for it,” Beamer told CBS Sports this spring about moving to nine conference games. “But before we say we’re all in on nine, I think I speak for every coach in the league when we just say what exactly are the playoffs going to look like in future years.”

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To Beamer’s point, it has become very clear that the SEC moving to nine conference games is tied to CFP format changes. Even before the CFP selection committee left out three SEC teams, the SEC and Big Ten had concerns about the committee’s ability to value the right things in picking the best field, according to multiple sources. CBS Sports reported extensively about those concerns back in December. 

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Author : John Talty

Publish date : 2025-05-27 14:23:00

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