Potential 14 team conference schedule?

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Greetings from Missouri. It's looking more and more like we will be joining you all in the SEC and I like most Mizzou fans am thrilled about it.

This was posted on a Mizzou forum as a possible 14 team schedule and I was curious what you all think about it.


Do away with divisions and give each team three permanent rivals.

Football - Play each rival every year plus 5 of the remaining 10 (rotating every 2 years) for an 8 game conference schedule.
*Championship game would be between the two teams with the best conference record and if there is a tie they take the two with the best BCS rankings.

Basketball - Play each rival home and away plus everyone else once for a 16 game conference schedule


Rivals could look something like this (teams might have to be adjusted a bit but you get the idea)

Alabama - Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee
Arkansas - LSU, Missouri, and Texas A&M
Auburn - Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
Florida - Auburn, Georgia, and Tennessee
Georgia - Auburn, Florida, and South Carolina
Kentucky - Missouri, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt
LSU - Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas A&M
Mississippi - Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt
Mississippi State - Mississippi, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt
Missouri - Arkansas, Kentucky, and Texas A&M
South Carolina - Georgia, Mississippi, and Mississippi State
Tennessee - Alabama, Florida, and Kentucky
Texas A&M - Arkansas, LSU, and Missouri
Vanderbilt - Kentucky, Mississippi, and Mississippi State

Using the above your conference schedule would look something like this.

Year 1
Alabama
@Florida
Kentucky
@Arkansas
Auburn
@Georgia
LSU
@Mississippi

Year 2
@Alabama
Florida
@Kentucky
Arkansas
@Auburn
Georgia
@LSU
Mississippi

Year 3
Alabama
@Florida
Kentucky
@Mississippi State
Missouri
@South Carolina
Texas A&M
@Vanderbilt

Year 4
@Alabama
Florida
@Kentucky
Mississippi State
@Missouri
South Carolina
@Texas A&M
Vanderbilt

Nice thing about this set up is the conference can protect important rivalries and in a four year period every team plays every other team both home and away.

Thoughts?
 
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Not bad really. Have to change the Conf Championship Rule the NCAA has that requires divisions.
 
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First off :hi:

Welcome to the board; post often



As for your idea, someone mentioned such on Clay Travis's site (or blog or whatever it is). According to him though, to have a conference championship, the only allowable way requires that divisions be set up
 
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Lets just do this and leave it at that for now.

Play one cross division rival and then rotate the others on a 2 year basis home and away one at a time.

Or go to 9 games and keep the cross division games as is.
 
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Hmm. I didn't know about the divisions requirement. I wonder if the NCAA would change that rule if the SEC decided to challenge it. Maybe the ACC as well now that they also have 14 members.

Oh and I forgot to mention in my first post. You all made a great hire for your hoops coach. A lot of Mizzou fans (including me) wanted us to hire Cuonzo right after Anderson left but instead we wasted time chasing after Matt Painter and ended up with Frank Haith. A hire I am slowly coming around too but I won't completely make up my mind about till after this season.

Thanks for the welcome to the board.
 
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MissouriFan- welcome to the best conference in college football, your fall Saturday experience is going to be much, much more exciting soon.

Snoozer 11:00 am games at Baylor, Iowa State and Kansas on the versus network will be replaced with night games at LSU, the swamp, Neyland stadium, etc. with ESPN production. There's really no comparison with what you're leaving to what your moving to.

Just curious, how do you feel about texas and their role in conference realignment?
 
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General Jack said:
Just curious, how do you feel about texas and their role in conference realignment?
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Not a fan of them. It would take longer than I want to spend right now to explain but they are in my opinion (and others) the main reason the Big 12 fell apart. Their ego, arrogance, and greed is unmatched.
 
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MissouriFan said:
Not a fan of them. It would take longer than I want to spend right now to explain but they are in my opinion (and others) the main reason the Big 12 fell apart. Their ego, arrogance, and greed is unmatched.
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Hi and welcome :hi: I could not agree with you more.
 
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Ericvol2096 said:
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Lets just do this and leave it at that for now.

Play one cross division rival and then rotate the others on a 2 year basis home and away one at a time.

Or go to 9 games and keep the cross division games as is.
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Yeah Nashville is a little out of place, haha.

Other than that, I really really like the look of that.
 
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Seems cool. That's for sure the 3 I would want to play every year and wouldn't mind getting Georgia in there.
 
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The one thing is we would have to keep Vanderbilt on our schedule. Being from the same state, that is an important rivalry game. And it's basically a guaranteed win every year. That doesn't hurt, either.
 
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shelbyvillevol said:
The one thing is we would have to keep Vanderbilt on our schedule. Being from the same state, that is an important rivalry game. And it's basically a guaranteed win every year. That doesn't hurt, either.
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I think we're their only real rival.

Maybe ole miss is a bit due to the yearly cross-division play
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NO to Mizzou. Please, Slive, don't do this!

Its NOT a match to our traditions in the SEC by any means. While I understand Mizzou's excitement to join this conference (what other option do they have other than the B12), they are just not SEC 'material'.

We all know it.
 
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Cooleyvol said:
NO to Mizzou. Please, Slive, don't do this!

Its NOT a match to our traditions in the SEC by any means. While I understand Mizzou's excitement to join this conference (what other option do they have other than the B12), they are just not SEC 'material'.

We all know it.
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And South Carolina was in 1992?

Missouri brings a whole lot more to the table now then USCe did then.
 
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USCe wasnt 700 miles from most campuses either. Mizzou is not 'southeastern' by any means.
 
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MissouriFan said:
Greetings from Missouri. It's looking more and more like we will be joining you all in the SEC and I like most Mizzou fans am thrilled about it.

This was posted on a Mizzou forum as a possible 14 team schedule and I was curious what you all think about it.


Do away with divisions and give each team three permanent rivals.

Football - Play each rival every year plus 5 of the remaining 10 (rotating every 2 years) for an 8 game conference schedule.
*Championship game would be between the two teams with the best conference record and if there is a tie they take the two with the best BCS rankings.

Basketball - Play each rival home and away plus everyone else once for a 16 game conference schedule


Rivals could look something like this (teams might have to be adjusted a bit but you get the idea)

Alabama - Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee
Arkansas - LSU, Missouri, and Texas A&M
Auburn - Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
Florida - Auburn, Georgia, and Tennessee
Georgia - Auburn, Florida, and South Carolina
Kentucky - Missouri, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt
LSU - Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas A&M
Mississippi - Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt
Mississippi State - Mississippi, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt
Missouri - Arkansas, Kentucky, and Texas A&M
South Carolina - Georgia, Mississippi, and Mississippi State
Tennessee - Alabama, Florida, and Kentucky
Texas A&M - Arkansas, LSU, and Missouri
Vanderbilt - Kentucky, Mississippi, and Mississippi State

Using the above your conference schedule would look something like this.

Year 1
Alabama
@Florida
Kentucky
@Arkansas
Auburn
@Georgia
LSU
@Mississippi

Year 2
@Alabama
Florida
@Kentucky
Arkansas
@Auburn
Georgia
@LSU
Mississippi

Year 3
Alabama
@Florida
Kentucky
@Mississippi State
Missouri
@South Carolina
Texas A&M
@Vanderbilt

Year 4
@Alabama
Florida
@Kentucky
Mississippi State
@Missouri
South Carolina
@Texas A&M
Vanderbilt

Nice thing about this set up is the conference can protect important rivalries and in a four year period every team plays every other team both home and away.

Thoughts?
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My thoughts.... you have four post on this board, and your team has yet to be admitted to the SEC.... we will set our own schedule and determine our own rivals.... after you win something in the SEC ... come back and talk to us............ LOL WELCOME TO THE VOLNATION
 
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Ericvol2096 said:
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Lets just do this and leave it at that for now.

Play one cross division rival and then rotate the others on a 2 year basis home and away one at a time.

Or go to 9 games and keep the cross division games as is.
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I heard the barn was willing to move east. Looks more likely if this happens.
 
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checkerboards09 said:
You need to read up on your history a bit more.
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I don't think history has anything to do with mileage. As for Missouri's history, I believe I'm good on my 'history'. I'm not sure of the relevance, however when we are talking about football traditions, etc.


Big Slick said:
Which is exactly the point of expansion. New territory = new TV markets = new revenue.
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Thank you Captain Obvious.
 
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Cooleyvol said:
NO to Mizzou. Please, Slive, don't do this!

Its NOT a match to our traditions in the SEC by any means. While I understand Mizzou's excitement to join this conference (what other option do they have other than the B12), they are just not SEC 'material'.

We all know it.
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I'd say the "we" you're talking about is really just a misinformed/biased minority.
 
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Cooleyvol said:
Thank you Captain Obvious.
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Then why complain about it? It's pointless. Even if you think Missouri is going to spit in the face of the SEC's traditions, culture, geographical footprint, etc. (FYI, they won't)...those things are barely on the fringe of Slive's radar right now. Getting upset over it is a waste of time.
 
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