As the SEC expands to nine-game schedule in 2026, Greg Sankey tells Paul Finebaum it aligns with new playoff criteria and strength-of-schedule focus.

The SEC is one of the two most powerful college football conferences in the nation. Ahead of 2025 kickoffs, here's how the conference stacks up.

Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson believes the SEC's move to nine conference games will help further discussions around the College Football Playoff format.

SEC athletic directors adopted a nine-game conference football schedule starting with the 2026-27 season, the league announced Thursday. The development comes as the CFP is set to implement new metrics in 2025 that place greater emphasis on strength of schedule,

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission named a senior military judge as enforcement director on Thursday, in what legal sources said was an unconventional pick for the top job policing Wall Street.

Arizona State football and head coach Kenny Dillingham are attempting to make a foray into regular national relevance after impressing the nation in a narrow Peach Bowl loss to national powehouse Texas earlier this year.

SEC set to add ninth conference football game in 2026. LSU has two non-conference games already scheduled in 2026 against Clemson and McNeese State. It will need to add one more opponent to fill out its schedule.

The SEC is finally, mercifully, moving to nine conference games. In the conclusion of a debate that has raged for years and yet somehow felt even longer, the SEC will move to a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2026.