SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has agreed to a contract extension that will keep him with the conference through 2026, it was announced Thursday.
The extension comes on the heels of Sankey overseeing the addition of Big 12 powers Oklahoma and Texas to the conference last week. The Sooners and Longhorns will bring the total number of SEC teams to 16 in 2025.
Sankey, 57, took over as the SEC’s eighth commissioner after Mike Slive stepped down in 2015. Slive died in 2018.
In December, Sankey helped broker a 10-year agreement with Disney that will give ABC and ESPN exclusive broadcast rights to SEC football and basketball games starting in 2024-25 and continuing through 2033-34.
Sankey now finds himself as one of the longest-tenured Power 5 commissioners in college athletics — second only to the Big 12’s Bob Bowlsby, who was introduced in 2012.