SEC football fans will love that the league breaks up and does its own thing in the future.
The SEC playoff match will only be a frantic dream of SEC football fans everywhere, and nowhere else.
While the idea of a playoff from the SEC only is a game of leverage by league commissioner Greg Sankey and nothing more, the current four-team formula from College Football Playoff expires at the end of the 2025 season. Sankey and SEC could be great with having this Shape to stay, but other Power Five conferences have been curtailed by the SEC’s dominance. What if you cut?
Let’s play the assumptions and see where this hole takes us. Which teams will participate in the SEC play-off only if it comes into effect this season? Get your popcorn ready because it means more!
SEC Football: What will the SEC-only match look like in the 2022 League season?
Since Oklahoma and Texas won’t join the SEC this season, we’ll keep the Sooners and Longhorns out of the discussion for now, though 16 teams will make this workout a lot more fun. Besides who will be involved, the big question is what is the size of the field? It will have at least four institutions, but probably not all fourteen member institutions because Vanderbilt is so terrible.
If the number were four, the teams would be Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M, and Kentucky, perhaps in that order. Since the splits will likely disappear completely once Oklahoma and Texas join the league, they won’t have any effect in this exercise either. Who wouldn’t want to see the Aggies challenge Dawgs in Athens and take on the Alabama Wildcats at Bryant-Denny before the Atlanta title match?
The six-team machine works as it gives the first two teams goodbye: Alabama and Georgia. Let’s just say Arkansas and Tennessee are the next two teams in the . The No.5 Kentucky Hogs will face No.4 in Lexington, while the No.6 seed will go head-to-head with third place Texas A&M at Kyle Field. Winner #5 vs. #4 goes to Alabama, while winner #3 vs. #6 goes to Athens.
Adds a field of eight LSU and Mississippi State teams. The Bayou Bengals will go to Athens, while the Bulldogs will take the 90 Mile Drive to Tuscaloosa to face Alabama again. The intrigues of 10 and 12 teams with South Carolina, Ole Miss, Florida and Auburn all joining the party can act as huge losing seeds. The point is, any SEC playoff just doesn’t include Mizu or Vanderbilt…
Ultimately, in theory, the SEC will treat this like a college basketball tournament to compete for eyeballs with whatever other leagues decide. If they go rogue, they can do whatever they want. If they want all 16 member institutions to participate throughout the holiday once Oklahoma and Texas are in the fold, so be it. Everything about it just makes more sense.
A SEC-only playoff isn’t for everyone, but this thing would attract huge numbers regionally.
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