Big news from the SEC: The league is moving to 10 conference games for 2020

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Locked On Vols podcast is your daily show covering Tennessee football, brought to you by Josh Ward. Josh has a bonus episode for this Friday after the SEC announced its plan to play 10 conference games only in 2020. What went into the decision and which two opponents will be added to Tennessee's schedule? Catch up on today's show. Today's show is presented by RockAuto.com Interested in advertising with Locked On Vols? Text ADVERTISING to 33777 or visit lockedonpodcasts.com/advertising Want to keep up on social media and send questions/comments? Follow these links: @Josh_Ward on twitter Facebook.com/JoshWard Instagram.com/joshjward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are Locked-on Balls, your daily Tennessee Volunteers podcast, part of the Locked-on
0:05.6	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:09.4	Welcome into Locked-on Balls, your team every day.
0:12.8	My name is Josh Hwar.
0:13.9	Thank you for being here today.
0:15.7	This is a bit of a bonus episode.
0:17.6	I had planned to do the next show on Monday, and I will be back on Monday,
0:21.4	but with the news on Thursday that the SEC has decided to go conference only for 2020 and go
0:28.3	to a 10-game schedule, which is still to be determined. They're still working that out, and
0:32.2	reportedly it's set up and ready to go. They just need to choose it as there are a few options,
0:38.1	according to Brandon Marcello of 247 sports. And the championship game in the conference,
0:42.7	the SEC title game would be moved back to December 19th. But we'll get into what went
0:47.7	into the decision. You'll hear from Greg Sanky in a moment. This means the non-conference games
0:51.8	are gone for 2020. That means Tennessee will not be playing at Oklahoma.
0:56.2	And that's disappointing to me.
0:58.4	I said at the beginning of the week when we were talking about Oklahoma moving its first game up to August 29th,
1:03.5	and that was going to create a by week before the Tennessee game.
1:06.9	My thought was, hey, if they end up playing that Tennessee Oklahoma game, that'd be great.
1:10.4	But it's not going to be there.
1:11.7	So this is a bonus episode a little bit shorter than normal.
1:14.4	But I wanted to talk about what happened on Thursday with the presidents and chancellors within the conference approving a 10-game conference-only football schedule for this fall.
1:24.9	And it is set to begin September 26th. So they are pushing the season back,
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