Cupcakes will no longer be on the menu in the SEC on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The SEC’s athletic directors on Tuesday at the conference’s annual meetings voted to schedule conference games—instead of so-called cupcake matchups against Group of 6 and FCS foes—in the college football regular season’s penultimate weekend starting in 2027.
“That’s the end of cupcake weekend in late November,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, dripping with sarcasm, told reporters on Tuesday at the SEC Spring Meetings. “We never got that one sponsored.”
