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Why is the SEC This Way?

Originally posted on Heartland College Sports
By Joe Tillery | Last updated May 27, 2025 6:24 PM ET

From God complexes to playing the victim, the SEC certainly loves to stack the deck!

During SEC Football meetings in Florida this week, multiple stories have already gone viral with textbook examples of the league’s constant gaslighting.

College Football fans have already witnessed Greg Sankey create false narratives about the Big 12 and ACC, Kalen DeBoer wonder what would happen if other teams played Oklahoma (6-7) and Vanderbilt (7-6), and even Mike Elko claim that Texas A&M was competitive with National Championship Runner-Up, Notre Dame.

It’s exhausting!

Will the league ever give it a rest? No! But that won’t stop social media from having fun at the league’s expense, with many around the world roasting Greg Sankey and the SEC for their role in the destruction of college football.

Here comes the SEC hypotheticals https://t.co/RpYJuahntg
— CFB Home (@CFBHome) May 27, 2025

This pretty sums up college football right now pic.twitter.com/wTdUmnTdEW
— Derek Duke (@DerekDuke25) May 27, 2025

I feel like every single team in the SEC could have an automatic bid and Sankey will still find a way to complain about something https://t.co/gG8b3v0TCb
— Roman Tomashoff (@rtomashoff34) May 27, 2025

It seems public opinion and the media have finally shifted to a mainstream belief that the SEC and B1G’s shameless greed is hurting college football.

I’m not mad about it, but they’re somewhere between 4 to 18 years late to this obvious realization.
— Jack Trice Mafia (@JackTriceMafia) May 27, 2025

Pretty tired of the SEC temper tantrum that’s been ongoing for the last few months https://t.co/h4kKzSaf5D
— Not Craig James (@CJK5H_SMU) May 27, 2025

SCENE: We enter a dark room, the sounds and light of a lit fireplace fill it. In the background we see a giant pile of money being counted by the Big Ten and SEC.

"It's not fair the way they treat us," one says to the other.
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) May 27, 2025

Didn't a committee put like every single SEC team into the NCAA basketball tournament? https://t.co/Yz7iN7cbF1
— Bud Elliott (@BudElliott3) May 27, 2025

Greg Sankey is an incompetent buffoon who lacks both the intelligence and the morals to run anything more complicated than your local McDonalds. He will do his best to ruin college athletes if left to his own devices. He needs to resign and leave sports permanently. https://t.co/DOKQgogCBO
— Dr. Green and White (@PaulFanson) May 27, 2025