Sarkisian was asked to expand on the subject on Thursday during his regular weekly Zoom with the media. We are becoming more and more like the NFL.”“We’re going to play nine SEC games. “It’s a different era of where we’ve gone to in college football in that we’ve all had to recalibrate,” Sarkisian said. We kind of wrapped up what we would call the preseason or non conference games and now we’re into regular season play. Sarkisian hasn't put much thought to not having played an SEC game yet.