The SEC’s impending decision to either continue playing eight conference games or move to nine will impact the Pac-12, directly and indirectly, as soon as 2025.
The SEC left its annual spring meetings last week without deciding on its future scheduling model once Oklahoma and Texas join the conference in 2025, though it’ll either be a 1-7 format with a requirement to play at least one Power 5 nonconference game or a 3-6 format without the league requirement to also play a P5 opponent.
There are 35 games scheduled between Pac-12 and SEC teams from 2025-33, including USC hosting Ole Miss and UCLA hosting Georgia in 2025 and Florida playing both Colorado and Arizona State in 2028, and some of those series may have to be rescheduled or potentially canceled if the SEC moves to nine conference games. Meanwhile, the Pac-12 is mulling dropping from nine to eight league games, at least under the current College Football Playoff format through the 2025 season.
