Steve Spurrier weighs in on scheduling in expanded SEC, future of divisional format

Steve Spurrier is an expert on all things SEC. With a myriad of experience within the conference as both a player and a coach, the former SEC Player of the Year and seven-time SEC Coach of the Year joined Another Dooley Noted Podcast to weigh in on what scheduling and divisions will look like in the expanded SEC.

“If they go to the eight or twelve teams in the Playoff, it probably would be best if we forget divisions,” stated Spurrier. “But I still like the conference championship game. I don’t know how they’re going to get to it. But still, everybody’s got to play everybody.

“It’s still going to come down to well wait a minute, why do we have to play them, and they don’t have to play them and blah, blah, blah. So, I don’t know how it’ll work out.”

While there are many questions to be answered regarding scheduling, Spurrier added that if he was still coaching, it doesn’t matter who you play — you’re just ready to do everything you can for a victory.

“All I know is as a coach, you get your players ready to play whoever the schedule says,” explained Spurrier. “That’s all you can do. Don’t worry about it, and let those people in the commissioner’s office, and the commish I guess decide that. The athletic directors decide that.”

Still, the former Florida and South Carolina head coach believes that when the SEC expands, we’ll see a change in the records of many programs within the conference.

“People are not going to have near as good as records as we’ve always had in the SEC,” added Spurrier. “Right now, we play eight conference games and four out of conference. A lot of schools give a lot of gimme games. Like, four gimme games. Some of them do, some of them don’t. But shoot, I guess that’s just the way life is.”

The SEC has continually been the best conference in college football, but Steve Spurrier recognizes it’s going to look very different over the next couple of seasons. Perhaps coaches within the conference should take the advice of “The Head Ball Coach” and just control what they can control amid the bevy of changes expansions will bring to the SEC.