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The SEC is considering a “temporary eight-game conference schedule” in the 2024 football season if Texas and Oklahoma join the conference “for at least one year, preserving the primary and secondary rivalries,” according to Ross Dellenger of SI.com.
But if ESPN is willing to pay more money into its SEC contract for the ninth game on the schedule, it’s likely the conference will move in that direction.
“That’s what will happen,” a high-ranking SEC administrator told Dellenger. “I don’t see the desire to go into the ninth game and not have any upside from a revenue standpoint. That’s what I think going out this week. [at the annual spring meetings]unless something dramatic happens.”
This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.
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