08/02/2021 A notable sidebar to the story of the SEC’s TV money lapping the (non-Big Ten) competition even ahead of the upcoming additionsof Texas and Oklahoma (and the extra money likely coming in there) is how the conference was doing that with a schedule of only eight conference games a year. The Big 12, Pac-12, and Big Ten have all been playing nine conference games lately, and they’ve lobbed some complaints at SEC teams for their lower conference schedules. Yes, some of the SEC’s out-of-conference matchups are prominent games at neutral sites or in a home-and-home series, but some of them have been easy wins against Group of Five or FCS teams, which have drawn a fair bit of criticism. And Andy Staples of The Athletic writes that the additions of the Longhorns and Sooners might prompt the SEC to go to a nine-game conference schedule, which could see some of those easier (and less valuable for TV) games going by the wayside: