{"id":1184337,"date":"2026-05-27T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184337"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:33:28","slug":"sec-to-eliminate-cupcake-week-beginning-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/sec-to-eliminate-cupcake-week-beginning-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC to Eliminate Cupcake Week Beginning in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most deeply unpopular weeks of the year in college football, especially\u00a0in the SEC, has historically come the week before the best week of the year, but it sounds like this is no longer going to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>The week before rivalry week in late November, which has become known in the\u00a0SEC as \u201ccupcake week\u201d\u00a0as teams routinely play FCS or non-power four opponents as one final tune up before going at it with their biggest rivals the following week.<\/p>\n<p>According to an announcement from Greg Sankey at the SEC Spring Meetings this week in Destin, the SEC athletic directors have voted to play conference games on this week, with Sankey actually declaring the end of cupcake week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NO MORE CUPCAKE WEEKEND: SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said the conference&#8217;s ADs have voted to end &#8216;Cupcake Weekend&#8217; the week before rivalry week in November.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the last 10-15 seasons SEC teams have routinely scheduled several games vs. Group of 5 and FCS schools\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rvCkZ9njLK\">pic.twitter.com\/rvCkZ9njLK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Next Round (@NextRoundLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NextRoundLive\/status\/2059646593180037410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ADs voted that our schools will play a conference game the next-to-last weekend, beginning in 2027,\u201d Sankey told media in Destin. \u201cWe have had a rotation that\u2019s had four teams with non-conference games or even open dates in that next-to-last weekend. I think that\u2019s the end of Cupcake Weekend in late November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why this decision was being made, the commissioner cited the new nine-game conference schedule meriting a need for the open week of SEC play moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nine conference games and a recognition that you\u2019re populating more weekends,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, you really cannot have odd numbers of open or non-conference dates later in the season. Because then that has a backward domino effect in terms of where you place games early. We ran into some of that in the 26th season. This allows more of the back-end scheduling. It opens some things up so you don\u2019t have that late conflict with either open dates or non-conference dates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0Alabama taking on Chattanooga and Auburn taking on Samford in this year\u2019s edition \u2014 which will take place the week before the Iron Bowl on November 21 \u2014 fans will know that it will be the last edition of these games at this point of the season and get moved to earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>One of the most deeply unpopular weeks of the year in college football, especially\u00a0in the SEC, has historically come the week before the best week <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/sec-to-eliminate-cupcake-week-beginning-in-2027\/\" title=\"SEC to Eliminate Cupcake Week Beginning in 2027\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1184119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,8,145,10,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alabama","8":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","9":"category-auburn","10":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","11":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dkb251206093_bama_vs_uga.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184338,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184337\/revisions\/1184338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}