SI Insider: The SEC Is Working to Have as Much Football This Season as They Can

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00:00My colleague Ross Dellinger and I reported on Wednesday the Southeastern Conference is

00:13trying to figure out how to salvage as much of the football season as it can, and one

00:16of the more popular plans for the moment is a 10-game schedule that could be eight league

00:22games and two non-conference games.

00:26The important factor here is that several SEC teams play season-ending rivalry games

00:31against ACC opponents, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson, South Carolina,

00:37Kentucky Louisville.

00:38There are also big non-conference games with the Big 12, LSU hosts Texas, Oklahoma plays

00:46Tennessee and so on.

00:48They'd like to save as many of those games as possible, so that's what they're trying

00:51to build into a schedule.

00:53The problem could come with the games that you're not playing and the teams from the

00:58Sun Belt or FCS level that SEC teams are saying, no, I'm sorry, we can't schedule you because

01:04those teams will be owed perhaps a million dollars for those games, and the SEC clearly

01:10teams won't want to pay that money for games not played.

01:13But the other schools will badly need the money, and they will look and say, if you

01:17are playing some non-conference games, you are making a choice which ones you are playing,

01:21which ones you are not, and that choice doesn't exclude us from having our money.

01:26So there could be some legal challenges here when it comes to some guarantee games that

01:30get wiped off the books.

01:32Just one of the many compelling and controversial and complicated elements, really, of the SEC

01:39trying to figure this schedule out, and ultimately it may not matter because we may not have

01:43football in the fall.

01:44Stay tuned.