As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the college football world, flexibility is going to be important moving forward.

However, it is equally important to have end dates and goals in mind so that we don’t get stuck in a void in which there’s no set finish line for the 2020 season.

On Saturday morning’s edition of College GameDay on ESPN, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey wouldn’t rule out moving the SEC Championship Game back from Dec. 19, but he did explain why the league will do everything it can to get all 10 regular-season games and the title game played by Dec. 19:

“My view is we need a finish line,” Sankey said. “Moving the finish line in any race is always difficult. Not impossible, but difficult. My focus is on moving us to completion on Dec. 19. Obviously, the circumstances around the virus are going to be an important factor in that decision-making process. I think our colleagues across the country have that same mentality. That doesn’t mean no (on pushing back title games), but it’s certainly not easy or at the forefront of our minds. I do think there’s an impact to having a floating finish line, a floating finish date, and it’s not the most healthy. At some point, we’re going to have to land the airplane of the 2020 season. We want to play all the games. Dec. 19 remains the focus for that conclusion to the conference schedule.”

Sankey has been measured and calculated in his responses to everything thus far in 2020, so this answer should come as no surprise. If the SEC Championship Game needs to be moved back, Sankey will have those conversations. Right now, there’s no need to move it preemptively, so he’s not going to do it.

We’ll see what happens as the weeks progress.