Greg Sankey Talks Decision to Eliminate Divisions

SEC Media days are under way in Nashville, Tennessee, and the conference commissioner Greg Sankey talked about the decision to eliminate divisions for the 2024 season.

Dawgs Daily is here in Nashville, Tennessee, for this week's slate of SEC Media Days. Coaches and players from all 14 teams in the conference will be taking the podium to speak about the upcoming season and to provide a glimpse of what this year has in store for their program prior to the 2023 college football season being kicked off.

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, LSU, Texas A&M, and Misso were the first ones up on the schedule for Monday to get things rolling. During Sankey's time at the podium, he was asked about the conference's decision to eliminate divisions for the 2024 season due to Oklahoma and Texas being added. Here is what he had to say:

"So I think people have written about a team may not see a team certainly for six years may not go someplace for 12 years if they're in another division. And so that was balance. Fairness was narrowing the competitive equity band, which is what we achieved, even with our eight-game schedule we announced just a few weeks ago in mid-June... The eight or nine-game schedule and the debate othe number of games played within the conference will still be part of our discussion, as we move forward and look to 2025. But the effort to try to be both fair and then balance within that scheduling approach was the motivation around eliminating divisions."

Earlier in the offseason, each SEC team's 2024 conference opponents were announced, and it was determined that each team would play one of Texas or Oklahoma as part of their eight-game conference schedule. As for Georgia, they will be traveling to Austin, Texas for their game against the Longhorns. The Bulldogs were supposed to play Oklahoma this season, but the game was removed from the schedule due to the Sooners making their SEC debut the following year. 

The conference initially switched to having a two-division format for the conference back in 1992 so adjusting to a non-division conference will take some getting used to for both the fans and the 16 programs. 

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