Next week. They will go to 9 if ESPN gives them more money and they schedule significant matchups in those 8 additional games.

But where is the money going to come from and what TV window are they going to broadcast those games on?

There are 13 weeks in a season, and three broadcast windows for the SEC if they do a late Eastern game. They have ABS, ESPN, ESPN+ and SEC network to broadcast games.

But the B12 also has games in those windows and the MWC get a few games a year as well

So the ESPN budget is probably pretty fixed at this point. Pay the SEC another $32M for those 8 games. Where does that money come from………….the $90M they were going to pay the PAC