“Now that all 14 of our teams and their players are going to have an experience of what an SEC Championship is like, I think that helps to check another box as far as making this fall, which could have been really crummy like it’s going to be for the Big Ten and the Pac-12, it makes it as good as it can be for the athletes in the SEC,” Guerrieri said.

In the spring, SEC soccer teams will get an undetermined amount of games to prepare for a spring NCAA tournament. Those games could consist of playing the remaining cross-divisional opponents or playing nonconference opponents, Guerrieri said.

SEC volleyball teams will play an eight-game, conference-only schedule in the fall, beginning Oct. 16 and running through Nov. 27. Teams will face four opponents and play each twice on a weekend. The league will continue to forego holding a conference tournament.

“It gives us a lot of flexibility to be honest,” A&M head coach Bird Kuhn said. “I think we’re in a really good situation moving forward. We’re all training right now and into it, so if we have that opportunity to play matches, that’s huge. We’ll see how this progresses into the spring.”

SEC volleyball teams will have some kind of spring schedule, whether that be a continuation of conference or nonconference games before a spring NCAA tournament, Kuhn said.