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Help Us Greg Sankey, You’re Our Only Hope

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Funny. Regular season marquee games are becoming more and more expensive, with the current ticket prices for Ohio State at Texas looking more and more like Argentina versus Spain in the recent World Cup.

This, despite the fact that we now have an expanded College Football Playoff, which makes said marquee game less significant in the grand scheme of things. Lose to Oklahoma in Athens, we still have good chances to make the CFP field. Lose twice…depending on who the loss is to, and if your name happens to rhyme with Motor Lame, you still have a chance.

Then there’s this:

The only person rumored to be opposed: Greg Sankey.

Now is it for the purity of the game? For the conference? Oh, hell no, you know better. It could be because of the draw we still get from the SECCG and the revenue generated from matchups in December like Georgia versus Alabama or Texas or Ole Miss or whoever.

But, apparently, the only cog in the wheel of expansion to December Madness is ole Greg himself.

Frankly, for all the crap I give him, and for whatever his purposes may be, I say…give ’em hell Greg.

We’re all counting on you.

Not really, but there’s always hope.

Eight States

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I have to admit, in the days of conference expansion, this might be the most entertaining/intriguing conference scheduling I’ve seen.

Let’s start with the fact that the whole conference plays their out-of-conference games in their first four matchups. Of those OOC games, it looks like many actually scheduled some entertaining ones, too.

Also, every PAC team is a State team. Hmmm. I heard Florida State is seeking a new home.

Next, you move into the regular season where you play seven conference games, with a bye week, and the final week is a Flex game. How does that work?

The Flex is just a bonus game, as the conference championship game participants are decided the week prior…but what it does provide is the opportunity to see another opponent in another stadium, as it’s geared towards making sure redundancy is avoided.

It’s a nice way to “get to know” your fellow conference opponents, who just joined your conference recently from the previous PAC-2.

Call it what you will, but I personally welcome the smaller conference feeling here as opposed to the mega-conference, “you might play these folks sometime this decade” scheduling. You know, like playing Texas A&M once since they joined the SEC 13 years ago….meanwhile, we’ve already played Texas three times in just their second year of conference membership. Go figure.

I gotta be honest, I’m kind of rooting for them to find a resurgence among the Power 4 money grabbers. As evidenced by Indiana, all it takes is the right group of investors, and you’re right up there again.