The post touted the SEC expanding to a nine-game conference schedule and that, according to their metrics, every SEC team made the Top 20 of the rankings. This season, the SEC will start a 9-game conference schedule 🗓️ A likely result of the additional conference game is that every SEC team has a strength of schedule in the Top-20, according to ESPN Analytics. “How do you know if SEC teams are better than teams from other conferences?” ESPN also builds the strength-of-schedule model that decides which SEC teams belong in the Playoff. But expecting anything sensible to happen in the college football world means it’s not likely to occur anytime soon.