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MIRAMAR BEACH, FL – After years of eating “cupcakes” late in the college football <\/a>season, the SEC has finally decided that its sweet tooth in November needed to go.<\/p>\n

If you are a fan of football, you know exactly what I’m talking about in terms of games played on the second-to-last weekend of the regular season in the Southeastern Conference.<\/p>\n

These matchups have generally consisted of schools within the SEC playing lower-level FBS, or even FCS opponents, like Alabama versus UT-Chattanooga on November 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

SEC SPRING MEETINGS TURN INTO BLUNT REALITY CHECK FOR BROKEN COLLEGE ATHLETICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In reality, these matchups are usually treated like an ‘off-weekend’ or even a Saturday where fans know that the starters will be out of the game by halftime.<\/p>\n

Fans are the ones who take a hit, knowing that these dreadful games will be played before ‘rivalry weekend’, and having to still pay a ridiculous amount of money to attend these scheduled outings that most would think should be a less-expensive trip to see their favorite team play.<\/p>\n

“That’s the end of cupcake weekend. We never got that one sponsored, though,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey<\/a> jokingly noted on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Now that the league is moving from an eight-game to nine-game conference schedule<\/a>, the SEC is hoping to capitalize on its new format.<\/p>\n

Getting away from these types of games being played late in the season is also a way for the conference to show their fans a little extra love, though media rights holder ESPN<\/a> assuredly appreciates the SEC finally pulling the trigger.<\/p>\n

“It’s nine conference games and a recognition that you’re populating more weekends,” Greg Sankey said on Tuesday evening. “And so you really cannot have odd numbers of open or non-conference dates later in the season because then that has a backward domino effect in where you place games early. We ran into some of that in the ’26 season.”<\/p>\n

Also known as “buy games,” schools have used this weekend late in the season to either snag an extra win for bowl eligibility or add a few extra million to the athletic department budget, after their payouts to the schools who travel into town for a beating.<\/p>\n

It’s a move that also keeps up with the Big Ten<\/a>, who have not watered down this weekend in November with a type of matchup that makes season ticket holders question why they are paying so much for their overall package.<\/p>\n

INSIDE THE SEC\u2019S HIGH-STAKES DESTIN SHOWDOWN OVER CFP EXPANSION, NIL AND A POSSIBLE NCAA BREAKAWAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately with a move to a nine-game conference schedule, some teams in the SEC have decided to ‘mutually’ part ways with upcoming power-four opponents, most recently with South Carolina<\/a> and North Carolina canceling their home-and-home series.<\/p>\n

There have been plenty others who have also decided that the additional conference game would be a catalyst to rearranging schedules, though there is still hope that schools will continue scheduling these marquee games in the future.<\/p>\n

Next season, we will see Ohio State versus Texas, Oklahoma versus Michigan and Alabama versus Florida State, just to name a few.<\/p>\n

But, as for the cupcakes that took up the back portion of the month of November, those days are history following the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

It’s about time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/secs-greg-sankey-confirms-cupcake-weekend-finally-dead-move-nine-game-schedule <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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