How future schedules will be made is one of the biggest conversations in college football right now.
The latest round of conference realignment has brought about a need to reevaluate scheduling. Even conferences such as the Big Ten, which did not participate in realignment, are looking what they need to do to make the conference as competitive as possible.
Media partners are as interested the coming scheduling shakeups as anyone. Interesting schedules mean interesting games, and that’s good for TV.
However, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said the league’s media partners will not be dictating the new format, but they will be kept in the loop.
“I don’t talk about TV contracts,” Sankey said, according to On3’s Nick Schultz. “We keep our future TV partner … long up to speed on the conversations.”
Sankey knows what we all know: The SEC will be one of the top brands in sports no matter the schedule. The TV partners know this, as well, which allows the SEC to call the shots. With Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference, that power only grows.
Some of the new formats being discussed involve the conference moving to nine conference games. It’s not clear how this would affect nonconference scheduling and if that extra game would take the place of a Group of Five or FCS opponent, or Power Five opponent, instead.
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