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SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule

As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.

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SEC Commissioner Takes Shot at Other Conferences Over Strength of Schedule​

As the college football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.

The College Football Playoff selection committee is just weeks away from releasing its final rankings and the first field of the 12-team era. As the football edition of Selection Sunday nears on Dec. 8, coaches, athletic directors and league administrators are in full lobbying mode.

As of this week, No. 3 Texas, No. 7 Alabama, No. 9 Ole Miss and No. 10 Georgia would all make the 12-team field. Tennessee is ranked No. 11, but would be on the outside looking in; No. 14 BYU would jump into the field as the fifth-highest ranked conference champion. The Big Ten would land the same number of programs in the field as the SEC based on the current rankings, with Big 12, ACC, Mountain West each sending conference champions as automatic bids and independent program Notre Dame landing at at-large. Three more SEC programs—No. 15 Texas A&M, No. 18 South Carolina and No. 23 Missouri—are also in the committee's latest rankings, although they're on the outside looking in.

It is no surprise that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey believes that his league should be getting a lion's share of the at-large bids. He took to X on Wednesday to make that clear, sharing a set of aggregated strength of schedule metrics that have six SEC programs up at the top.

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The depth of the SEC is undoubtedly impressive, and the league has a host of teams with multiple losses as a result. Texas leads the way at 9-1, Texas A&M is 8-2 with a 5-1 SEC record and the next four teams are all 8-2 with both losses coming in league play.

Strength of schedule is just one factor, of course. It is hard to see undefeated or one loss Big Ten teams being left out, there four automatic bids outside of the SEC, and Notre Dame is almost guaranteed a bid if they don't slip up down the stretch. Sankey will likely do plenty of politicking over the next few weeks, but without a material change for the other schools in the mix here, it seems unlikely that he gets the five or six SEC teams that he wants in the field.

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BuckeyeNation27 said:

Strength of schedule is real impressive when you get to just put all the SEC at the top for......reasons.

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BB73 said:

The strength of schedule thing is based on a house of cards by only playing 8 conference games, and thus having a better overall winning % than the B1G and Big XII, who play 9.

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RB07OSU said:

Exactly what was my on my mind. Throw money out before the lack of institutional control sanctions come down, probably not a coincidence. I'm probably swimming into the ttun recruiting thread, but I think that's what is happening here with Underwood.

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buckeyemania11 said:

Can't wait for the same DFBIA who mocked Ohio State for "buying a team" to explain how this is "different" because he actually wants to be there and it's not all just about the money or some stupid shit.

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Captain Buckeye said:

Again, I don’t see how they don’t lose everything.

Just too serious what they did to not pay the maximum price. I’m shocked TCUN didn’t self impose a bowl ban but maybe they can’t do that since they aren’t bowl eligible yet lol

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osuvictory1 said:

Timing on their late recruiting stuff is weird to me. It almost seems like a front being put on in order to sway opinion that everything is normal right before the NOA comes out.

Everything Scum does seems orchestrated around minimizing their predicament.

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