Sankey: We’re going to play a 10 game schedule

On his press conference this week, SEC AD said that the conference would definitely play 10 games.

Sankey had already shuffled around the order of games in mid-October, and will have to do again now Alabama vs LSU, Texas A&M vs Tennessee, Mississippi State vs Auburn and Georgia vs Missouri have all been postponed.

“One thing I’m not concerned about is the respect that exists for playing an SEC football schedule. We adopted the 10-game schedule knowing the rigours,” he said.

There is a move to go to December 19th to get everything completed. You get the feeling that if there are games cancelled as the season drags on, we’re going have to see teams play incomplete schedules.

But probably not the likes of Alabama, Texas A&M and Florida, who all represent the SEC’s best chances of play-off spots.

Of course, Lane Kiffin, the SEC’s favourite troll, said this: “I guess injuries are counting in those numbers that people can get out of playing,” Kiffin said. “I don’t know. Maybe some people don’t want to play. Maybe their season’s not going good. So who knows?”

You can’t help but think that this was a shot at LSU (who are down to its last QB) and Mississippi State (who have injuries, opt-outs, and have been downright terrible).