Please give the fans a nine game sec schedule

#26
#26
If SEC team are expected to play 9 conference games and still play a P5 OOC team, they should expand the scholarship limit to 90-95. They need more depth to handle that schedule.
 
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#27
Not too hard IMO. Four permanent opponents, five rotating. Sure every other year will be one less home game but that will balance out. Keep divisions if you want or just take two best records.

O and force Florida to play all 12 of their games no matter what. They should honestly have developed a contingency plan by now.
 
#28
#28
Add if you play a FCS team you don’t get credit for the win, play those games in the spring and charge admission, not 50 bucks for the fall. Garbage games are garbage. I’m all for a 10 game in conf schedule and 2 OOC. Take best 2 records kill the divisions. All rotating opp.
 
#29
#29
Why not a 12 game SEC schedule - no patsies! Play 6 from your conference, 3 rival games from the other conference and a rotational schedule for the other 4 teams in that conference.
 
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Pruitt Will Do It said:
Tennessee could possibly win 9-10 games in 2019 because of an OOC schedule with Georgia State,BYU,Chattanooga and UAB;)
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I don’t care, doesn’t mean they are a 9-10 win team IMO for beating up on the sisters of the poor. I think The big 5 should do away the “div 2”’games all together and only schedule each other for OOC.
 
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Tried to stay out of this but a 9 game season means the Alabama Rivalry goes away. Now ask yourself, how many fans want to see this? The younger generation may welcome this but being a season ticket holder since 2001 until my son played HS football in 2014 and I couldn't make the games. The amount I spent for my 4 tickets on the lower bowl and in N section and bowl tickets when we made one, was well over 3000 year for seats and * to 9 hundrend for tickets. I have spent thousands for my school. A NINE game season is ridiculous and , HOLD THE BRAKES, this is a bad idea.......... When you take a hundred year old rivalry away and try to force the Third Saturday on people you're barking up the wrong tree.
 
#36
#36
13 game regular season is what I want. Make 9 of them in conference and split the others. Two P5 and two paid wins.
 
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CMcEver said:
This won't happen, simply due to the loss of .5 home games a year. With 8 SEC games, we get 4 SEC home games, and 3.5 OOC home games. With 9 SEC games, we get 4.5 SEC home games and 2.5 OOC games. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe the bigger games makes up for loss of revenue of the home games, I don't know.
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This is correct. The magic number is 7 home games to subsidize all the non revenue sports and maintain the standard of living that we are accustomed to. No SEC school in their right mind would give up one of those for a 9 game conference schedule. The SEC is participating in the 4 team playoff every year, sometimes with multiple teams. There is no reason, particularly for a guy looking for one game tickets, for the university to schedule another conference game for his convenience. All those donations lost, etc.... ;-) It's all about the money boys!
 
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volunteerfan said:
I was on utvol.com the other day to buy tickets and it’s a shame that there’s only four games out of seven home games that I really wanted to spend money on and make a trip to Knoxville. I can’t speak for everybody but I know that I don’t want to see UTEP, Charlotte, or ETSU. I really hope this changes in the future
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Don't think 9 games would work since 5 road games every other year would not be well received.
 
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More does not always equal better. As long as at least one game is another P5 team I don’t have a problem with the current schedule. Those gimme games like ETSU help pay for the little guys programs and should in theory give the big teams a chance to play a lot of guys in real game situations.
 
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volunteerfan said:
I was on utvol.com the other day to buy tickets and it’s a shame that there’s only four games out of seven home games that I really wanted to spend money on and make a trip to Knoxville. I can’t speak for everybody but I know that I don’t want to see UTEP, Charlotte, or ETSU. I really hope this changes in the future
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I'm glad that would make you happy....... because you are most important of course. The 9-game schedule would almost assuredly, because of rivaries, neutral-site games, etc., eliminate the ability to play FBS schools. And again, while that is obviously not important to you.....there are 129 FBS schools...and a majority of those schools use 1 or 2 FCS games a year ($$$$), to not only fund their football programs, but most of their non-revenue sports also. So that Saturday you are sitting at home in front of your TV (because based on your post, you are NOT even a season ticket holder) whatching 2 also-ran SEC teams duking it out, hundreds, maybe thousands of Student Athletes at FBS schools will no longer be given the opportunity and joy of compete at the college level unless they completely fund it themselves. I hope it never changes.
 
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volunteerfan said:
I was on utvol.com the other day to buy tickets and it’s a shame that there’s only four games out of seven home games that I really wanted to spend money on and make a trip to Knoxville. I can’t speak for everybody but I know that I don’t want to see UTEP, Charlotte, or ETSU. I really hope this changes in the future
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I’d like to see it, but it’s not happening any time soon as Commissioner Sankey has made abundantly clear. At least 1 SEC team (last year two) has played in the championship game each of the last 3 years. Prior to that, an SEC team won 9 of 16 BCS championship games.....all while playing an 8 game conference schedule. So, as Sankey has said in so many words, the 8 game schedule is working just fine and there won’t be any changes any time soon.
 
#43
#43
The only way a 9 game conference schedule happens is for money. A 9 game conference schedule means fewer total games for the conference as a whole but more high quality tier 1 matchups week in/week out. If someone is willing to pay a high enough premium for that, then it will happen.
 
#45
#45
The real question is why are we playing Army in 2022. Never schedule triple option teams OOC, especially if they are a service academy.
 
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