The SEC joins other major conferences in agreeing to only play conference football games this season, with the ten-game season kickoff set for September 26th.
Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says the decision makes sense from a scheduling and healthcare perspective.
“I know the SEC wanted to go this way because they just wanted to have the same safety health protocols, dealing with the same ones every week, they wanted the uniformity of playing conference schools from which they knew what their protocols were health-wise,” says Higgins.
The SEC Championship Game will be held on December 19th in Atlanta.
A revised schedule will be announced at a later date, and Higgins says the start date works well.
“It is the first week really of the season where really most of the games in the conference with conference teams are conference games, and that was scheduled as LSU’s SEC opener against Ole Miss so the September 26th date made sense,” says Higgins.
The SEC conference schedule usually holds eight games, and how the newly added two conference games will be handled is a big question.
Plans in the pandemic era have been hard to keep month to month and Higgins says this may be the idea now, but it’s tough to say where we will be in late September.
“We will see how many they can play, all around the country they are wondering if we decide these plans how many can we play? I think that is going to be crazy and fascinating in how all of that plays out,” says Higgins.
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