The SEC has a lot of power in the South. It’s finally using it.
Ole Miss football players carry an American flag as they take the field before a game in Oxford, Mississippi.the league would consider barring its member universities in Mississippi from holding championship events if the state did not remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. That state of Mississippi is home to two SEC schools—Ole Miss and Mississippi State—and is the last state in the U.S. to include the symbol of the Confederacy on its flag.
its flag policy, which would effectively prohibit Mississippi from hosting NCAA championship events until the state flag is changed.
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