SEC will keep 8-game football schedules through ‘15
The SEC has decided to keep eight-game league football schedules through at least the 2015 season.
And through at least that season, the schedule will remain the so-called 6-1-1 format: six games against intra-division opponents, one game against a fixed cross-division opponent and one game against a rotating cross-division opponent.
That means the annual Georgia-Auburn game is safe for the time being.
But during the next year or so, the league will review all scheduling options — including whether to increase to nine league games and whether to drop fixed cross-division opponents — for the 2016 season and beyond.
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Tim Tucker, a long-time AJC sports reporter, often writes about the business side of the games. He also had stints as the AJC's Braves beat writer, UGA beat writer, sports notes columnist and executive sports editor. He was deputy managing editor of America's first all-sports newspaper, The National Sports Daily.
