The SEC is playing games this weekend and next weekend as the regular season winds down. Yes, there have been postponements, but the league is still on pace to play 69 of its scheduled 70 games.

In the ACC, Clemson and Notre Dame had their games canceled this weekend to let them rest before next week’s ACC Championship Game. But, on Saturday’s College GameDay, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said that’s not how things work in his league.

He said there was never any consideration to canceling Alabama’s game at Arkansas or Florida’s home game vs. LSU. He even took a shot at leagues like the Big Ten and Pac-12 while touting Florida’s tough schedule:

“Florida will have to play 8 straight weeks through our championship game,” he said. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we have some conferences that aren’t even going to play 8 games in their schedule.”

Then, Sankey sent a strong message to the College Football Playoff selection committee, saying he hopes they stay true to their statements about playing more games being important:

“Playing games matters,” he said. “The Playoff selection committee has said that. We have a chance to demonstrated the excellent football in the Southeastern Conference today. I really didn’t have any pushback from our teams. They’re ready to play and have these opportunities. I think playing games matters. Candidly, you take the Texas A&M-Florida game. We added that to our schedule when we went from 8 conference games to 10. You take that game away and Florida is undefeated and Texas A&M only has the loss at Alabama and it’s a different world. So the question is — are we going to be rewarded for playing games or rewarded for not playing games?”

Heading into the next CFP rankings on Tuesday night, there will be some important questions answered. Will Ohio State be punished for another idle weekend? We’ll find out soon enough.