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FILE – Greg Sankey, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, speaks during NCAA college basketball women\u2019s SEC Media Day, Oct. 16, 2024, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo\/Mike Stewart, File)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

DESTIN, Fla. \u2014 The Southeastern Conference is eliminating \u201ccupcake weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

The league\u2019s athletic directors voted at their annual spring meetings for everyone to play conference games on the second-to-last week of the regular season beginning in 2027.<\/p>

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It means no more Football Championship Subdivision or lower-tier Football Bowl Subdivision opponents before those rivalry games that typically take place during the final week of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the end of cupcake weekend,\u201d SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said. \u201cWe never got that one sponsored, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEC decision-makers have discussed dumping those late-season payday matchups for months. The conference expanded to a nine-game league schedule beginning in 2026, prompting the need for more significant matchups in late November.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nine conference games and a recognition that you\u2019re populating more weekends,\u201d Sankey said. \u201cAnd so you really cannot have odd numbers of open or non-conference dates later in the season because then that has a backward domino effect in where you place games early. We ran into some of that in the \u201926 season.\u201d<\/p>

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Only four SEC teams \u2013 Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi and Mississippi State \u2013 have such games set for this season.<\/p>\n

The league and its television partners also started releasing game times for the early part of the season and drew criticism from Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek. Yurachek pointed out that his team will essentially lose a full day between a 9:15 p.m. kickoff at Utah on Sept. 12 and an 11 a.m. kick the following Saturday against Georgia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assigned schedule will cost our student-athletes nearly a full day of rest and recovery that they would otherwise have available to them,\u201d Yurachek wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cThis is not simply a competitive disadvantage \u2014 it is a genuine welfare issue for the young men who represent our program and contribute greatly to the bottom line of our television partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that it \u201cdemonstrates a clear neglect for the well-being of college athletes.\u201d<\/p>

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