TNR 5/26/26 - Hour 1 | Greg Sankey on a CFB Playoff ISLAND? SEC ADs Want 24?

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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SEC Meetings are underway in Destin. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey says this is the most overblown spring meeting ever. He also had much to say about a 16-team College Football Playoff but doehe have his ADs on board? Also part of the discussion is the future of the SEC Championship Game. Sankey remains squarely in the corner of keeping the game on the schedule. The Alabama Crimson Tide has two teams still playing on the field. Alabama Baseball is the 7-Seed nationally in the College World Series. Alabama Softball is headed to Oklahoma City for the College Softball World Series. The Auburn Tigers got the overall 4-Seed in the College World Series field. Did they also get the easiest path to Omaha? Mississippi State Softball stuns Oklahoma Texas Tech Softball knocks off Florida in Gainesville and Jason Williams burns bridges Knicks hammer Cavaliers to sweep NBA Eastern Conference Finals PLUS, Outkick.com founder Clay Travis joins the show! SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - / @nextroundlive FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Brooks Carter: /BrooksACarter Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, the next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.
0:15.3	Alabama and Auburn will not have to leave home if they make it to the World Series in Omaha. We'll talk baseball later on. Alabama softball is in the women's college World Series.
0:27.4	Oklahoma is not after a major, major upset. A little diamond talk later on. We'll get to the Knicks at some point. We'll talk the NFL. A lot of college football, including Lane Kiffin, who it's talking season,
0:40.8	and he will not stop talking.
0:43.0	So we'll get to Lane Kiffin eventually, too.
0:44.9	But the SEC meeting started yesterday down in Stormy, Destin, Florida, and the commissioner
0:50.3	Greg Sanky had a chance to hold his afternoon news conference with
0:54.8	Storm was brewing on the outside and obviously guys the talk was the expanded playoffs and
1:02.1	all of that that was a major talking point let's start off with what Greg Sanky said first
1:06.6	cut one Tyler about these SEC meetings and the conversation about these playoffs.
1:12.1	Here's Greg Sanky in a mood that he's smiling, but this is a mood that Lance has become
1:17.7	very, very fond of with Greg Sanky.
1:20.9	I'm kind of amazed over the weekend since I had a few rain delays among preparation.
1:27.3	If you can over-hype a spring meeting, I think that successfully happened based on some of the headlines.
1:33.6	We have a lot of issues, plenty of work to do, plenty of opinions.
1:38.1	I do not anticipate any decisions on the college football playoff, just so you're clear.
1:42.9	So we can tap that down.
1:44.8	We have time.
1:45.8	We'll spend time looking at a range of possibilities
1:50.2	around the playoff itself,
1:52.7	both learning from the successes
1:54.3	and then trying to look forward.
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