SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced that member schools will now play nine conference games per football season instead of eight — the latter of which has been the norm since 1992. Additionally, SEC schools must play a non-conference Power Four opponent every year.
“It’s been a discussion for quite a while,” Ole Miss Vice Chancellor of Intercollegiate Athletics
Keith Carter said in an interview with The Daily Mississippian. “I think that it was inevitable that we were going to go to nine games at some point, whether it was this coming season or the season after. I think there’s a lot of pros to doing it, obviously we give an opportunity for more quality games, give our fans an opportunity to see those games and I think that’s a win.