Wiedmer: Is it time to go to nine league games in SEC?

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The Beatles orchestrated it (Revolution No. …). The Splendid Splinter, Ted Williams, wore it on his back. Cats’ lives supposedly total this.

But can the Southeastern Conference hope to run its consecutive number of BCS football championships from seven to nine two seasons from now — assuming it captures its eighth straight this season — if the league decides each team should play nine league games in 2014 instead of the current eight?

And you thought finding a solution to Washington’s Sequester nightmare was difficult. Yet the nine-game argument almost certainly figures to be near the top of the agenda when the SEC begins its spring meetings in Destin, Fla., this week.

“Will it happen in our league?” Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart replied to a nine-game question a couple of weeks ago. “I hope that it will. … I’m a proponent of nine games, period.”

But asked on a Birmingham radio show when he thought it might begin, he said, “Maybe never.”