Greg Sankey reaffirms his view around the SEC’s position on Playoff expansion
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If you think that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey would be interested in expanding the College Football Playoffs to 8 teams, you’d be sadly mistaken. Sankey reaffirmed his commitment to staying with four teams at least for now.
Sankey said this to Mark Packer on SiriusXM:
With @CFBPlayoff expansion in flux, @GregSankey told @MarkPacker that he thinks the @SEC is in a good position. pic.twitter.com/t5JtBkQc98
— College Sports on SiriusXM (@SXMCollege) October 11, 2021
“Our conference is fully comfortable staying with the 4 best teams. I can’t be more clear than that,” Sankey said. “I think one of the misnomers is that somehow there’s a link to membership transition in the Southeastern Conference and a suggestion to go to 12.”
Sankey believes having conference champions in a 12-team field has to be balanced against having the best teams. In fact, the SEC is still in a good position this year to have more than one team be in this year’s CFP.
Sankey said he’s always looked at the effort to figure out a format to say, “How to you make it an expectation to meet conference champions, but also have the credibility of ensuring the best teams.”
Veteran journalist Stacey Mickles graduated from the University of Alabama and covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
