LEXINGTON, Ky. — Even with the arrivals of Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference moved up to 2024, Mitch Barnhart continues to make clear that Kentucky is still in favor of SEC teams staying at eight league football games played annually, not nine.
The University of Kentucky athletics director makes logical points as to why adding an additional league contest each season would be problematic for the SEC programs — such as UK — where the historic margin of error between football success and failure is reed thin.
The problem, however, with staying at eight games once Boomer Sooner and Hook’em Horns are chanting “S-E-C!” is that the scheduling format being proposed to allow for that, the so-called “1-7 plan,” would be wildly unsatisfying.
