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SEC to Eliminate 'Cupcake Weekend' in 2027 Scheduling Overhaul

The Southeastern Conference is eliminating "cupcake weekend." The league’s athletic directors voted at their annual spring meetings for everyone to play conference games on the second-to-last week of the regular season beginning in 2027. It means no more Football Championship Subdivision or lower-tier Football Bowl Subdivision opponents before those rivalry games that typically take place during the final week of the season. "That’s the end of cupcake weekend," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said. "We never got that one sponsored, though." SEC decision-makers have discussed dumping those late-se...