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Oklahoma HC Brent Venables on Texas A&M: "I think they understand what playing complementary football looks like, and it'll be a great, great challenge. I know they lost a lot of guys up front, but they also signed a bunch of real dudes. It will be a line scrimmage type of game, knowing who Coach Elko is and what has been established there in College Station."

Oklahoma HC Brent Venables on Texas A&M OC Holmon Wiggins: "He is a winner. Coach Elko is not going to hire any duds. He'll do a great job. Collin (Klein) did a wonderful job of establishing who they wanted to be identity-wise. Tough and physical, create explosive plays in the run and pass game."

Venables on facing A&M: "It's exciting. It's another one of the teams that shows the depth of the SEC. Mike (Elko) and his staff have done a really good job." "They've (built in the trenches) well. It's going to be a great challenge. It's going to be in Norman, thankfully for us."

Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables, who is the oldest coach in the SEC: "Nothing's weird to me, but I don't feel old. I'm double-nickels, 55, and I know that sounds old, but the spirit is good. I'm in a good spot."

Oklahoma QB John Mateer: "I loved the Manning Passing Academy... Being around all the guys. Marcel Reed took me to Chick-fil-A. He looks good, a year better. He's fun to be around. It was great."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on suggested revisions to the PCSA: "Do you have to bat 1.000? You never give up things in those conversations." "They're all worth consideration and inclusion. Whether we see that remains to be seen."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on officiating: "There are limits to transparency. When an error is made in a game, scholarships are not pulled from a player. They do not lose their starting game. We provide feedback for our officials." "We have found a reasonable balance. Reasonable people can disagree with that. The steps we've taken to try and get it right are evident of our willingness and motivation to be transparent."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: "Every week, officials go on a football field, basketball court, softball field and baseball field, and everything they do is transparent. You can't hide if you put on an officiating uniform. We've added some motivators with replay to get it right."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: "We don't have any idea of the clear media interest of an expanded Playoff. We do know and have an understand of what happened when we went to 12." "Second, the calendar is challenging. There is a line in the Protect College Sports Act that requires the college football season to be completed by Jan. 8."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on the nine-game scheduling model and the CFP: "The fact that our head coaches are here means they're embracing the challenge." "As it relates to the College Football Playoff selection committee, we have heard about strength of schedule, strength of record and strength of conference. ... My confidence is that people will act with integrity. We have questions about the strength and rigor associated with competing in the Southeastern Conference."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: "Beneath the observation is frustration, but I also know the pride I spoke of with 13 national championships, so there is meaning and value that we operate in a national organization, but that national organization must operate in a healthy manner."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on conversations surrounding potentially 'breaking away' from the current college sports model: "They're real. People have talked about that. They've opined about the frustrations that have brought them to the point of looking for something different. I do not believe that it's a leverage point." "We have regulated ourselves more aggressively by choice than other colleagues around the landscape. ... What you hear comes out of a culture that we can regulate ourselves."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: "Our responsibility is to make principled decisions to protect college football, preserve what makes it special and do what sets it up for long-term success."

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SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: "When you look at our schedule, no one has create the kind of weekly competition that you'll find in the Southeastern Conference." "We believe we are the best conference in college football."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on the nine-game conference scheduling model: "It creates the most demanding sets of football schedules in the entire country."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on the College Football Playoff: "Our approach has remained consistent. We're not necessarily focused on finding the easiest path. We're focused on finding the right path for college football."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey: "If Congress is going to act, and I believe it should, we have one opportunity to get this legislation right." "If Congress passes a bill and it's signed into law, we won't be returning to D.C. in a year."

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said there are four principles that the league is focusing on when it comes to legislation: 1. National standards 2. Framework must be "truly" national 3. Transparency and accountability are "essential" 4. Treat similarly situated institutions equally while preserving institutional choice