NCAA 2025 SEC Championship format

[Regionals]

Gymnastics Championships - Southeastern Conference

March 24, 2024 | Legacy Arena | Birmingham, Ala.

www.secsports.com

From the release:
"The 2025 SEC Gymnastics Championship will consist of a one-day team and all-around competition. The format will include the top eight teams (determined by NQS), with Seeds 5-8 competing in the afternoon session, and Seeds 1-4 competing in the evening session."

So, the number 9th ranked SEC team is just not going to be competing. I wonder if there is a way for individuals from that team to qualify somehow to contend for AA and event titles.

 

[RedBirdie]

That's....shitty. Yep, just plain shitty, no other way to put it. Incidentally, Georgia would have been the team on the outline last season.

 

[irichluck21]

Just have teams 5-9 compete and they can rotate with a bye.

Ridiculous. Before Arkansas started a program, the SEC championship was a one session meet with all 7 teams. 3 teams were on byes each rotation.

 

[irichluck21]

Also Georgia was 8th ranked in the SEC but was 18th overall.
The 18th ranked team gets booted from conference championships?

 

[irichluck21]

Also, the Big Ten is doing 3 sessions of 4.
No reason SEC can't do 3 sessions of 3.

 

[Orange]

I have a feeling ESPN shut down having the early session with five teams and a bye. It would kill them to have to show an extra 20 minutes of gymnastics instead of more basketball, and this is coming from a person who watches basketball.

While the coverage of college gym has come a long way since I started watching, at some point you have to wonder how much more the sport is going to sacrifice for tv. We’ve gone from 12 teams at nationals to 8, apparently exhibitions are gone from SEC meets, and now this. I’m sure they would be thrilled if somehow they could get the meets under an hour.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

That conference championship meet will probably have major NQS implications for the team that is left out. That’s one less possible road score.

 

[Regionals]

That conference championship meet will probably have major NQS implications for the team that is left out. That’s one leas possible road score.

I said the same thing about Oregon State not having that last away meet. Every season, the regionals field is not set until that Saturday with the bubble teams and seeded teams having possible movement based on that last score.

I know this would be very unlikely to be possible, but what I would want to happen at this point is for Oregon State to procure a neutral site now for that Saturday with the open invitation that whichever SEC team gets left out is automatically invited to that dual meet. That way, both teams get one more away score.

 

[cuuf]

I have a feeling ESPN shut down having the early session with five teams and a bye. It would kill them to have to show an extra 20 minutes of gymnastics instead of more basketball, and this is coming from a person who watches basketball.

While the coverage of college gym has come a long way since I started watching, at some point you have to wonder how much more the sport is going to sacrifice for tv. We’ve gone from 12 teams at nationals to 8, apparently exhibitions are gone from SEC meets, and now this. I’m sure they would be thrilled if somehow they could get the meets under an hour.

This! If you havent been following whats been going on in college football, its all about TV revenue and keeping the networks happy. If the SEC sees that losing out on the extra NQS score prevents a post-season birth, they might change it. But it has to happen first.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

This! If you havent been following whats been going on in college football, its all about TV revenue and keeping the networks happy. If the SEC sees that losing out on the extra NQS score prevents a post-season birth, they might change it. But it has to happen first.

It sounds like it might have more implications for a seeded berth in regionals, or potentially avoiding play-ins.

 

[BB12]

TV wins out unfortunately.

 

[cuuf]

It sounds like it might have more implications for a seeded berth in regionals, or potentially avoiding play-ins.

The TV contracts and the payouts in the SEC are based solely on if a school makes it to the post-season. It does not matter if they are in a play-in or number 1 seed. So as long as it is not jeopardizing making the post-season, and therefore affecting money the conference receives, they are going to do what the Networks want.

What I am saying is that ultimately, any decision the conference makes is going to be based upon maximizing the revenue that the conference receives versus any competitive advantage.

 

[Regionals]

It would be wild if Alabama misses out on an SEC Championship in Birmingham.