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Ross Dellenger

Sankey Confirms SEC Is Formulating Harsher Field-Storming Penalties

SEC officials have explored a wide range of options in their pursuit of strengthening the league’s penalty structure on fans storming the field, including forfeiting a game or giving up a future home game, commissioner Greg Sankey said Tuesday.

“People have said you should flip [the home site]. People have said you should forfeit the game. People have said you shouldn’t get to a bowl game,” Sankey said. 

Speaking after Day 1 of a three-day College Football Playoff spring meeting in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas, Sankey confirmed a report from Sports Illustrated earlier this week about the league considering a penalty that would require teams to forfeit a future home game for storming the field. However, the commissioner cautioned that several options have been discussed and that nothing has been finalized.

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