ATLANTA -- Georgia coach Kirby Smart said the SEC coaches haven't reached a consensus in their support for a 16-team playoff model that would include the five highest-ranked conference champions and 11 at-large teams.
But Smart said most SEC coaches favor that format for 2026 because it wouldn't limit their participants like automatic qualifiers.
"I think the best representative model of the best teams is probably the 5-plus-11 model, but I don't think that's a consensus in the SEC," Smart told ESPN at SEC media days Tuesday. "... There's been a major strain put on the colleges that are borderline, bubble.