Pros and Cons of a 9 conference schedule

Which do you prefer for conference games?

  • stay like it is...8

    Votes: 30 33.7%

  • Amp it up.... 9

    Votes: 59 66.3%
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Volteacher

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#1
As we enter the summer blues of no college sports and nothing really happening. I was wondering what Volnaton thinks about conference schedules.

so after this year will the SEC go to a 9 game conference schedule? There are pros and cons to them both. With a harder schedule might be able to help a team reach the playoffs, but con lose that ninth game and not reach the playoff. You will not have a guarantee 4 wins with cupcake OOC schedule. Pros brings in better games to your stadium instead of seeing Tennessee playing Akron they might have LSU or TAMU. Pro it lets the fans see their team play against ALL SEC teams within 4 years time. Con when you have to play 5 conference games AWAY and your rival only has 4 it can create fan bitterness.....wait....that already exists....well maybe PRO then.
 
#4
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VolPack22 said:
Neither, I want 10 games.
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100%. Playing an odd number of conference games makes no sense to me. The uneven schedules already give teams an advantage some years. This will compound it. Home field advantage in the SEC is massive . . . a team having one more home game vs a team having one more road game is significant. The 17-game NFL schedule also disagrees with my sense of symmetry.
 
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Biggest con for 8 game schedule to me is more uneven scheduling amongst SEC teams like Texas last year versus Oklahoma, UGA, Florida etc. At least there is another conference game that could slightly help that. The odd number of home versus away is a con but could be made up the next year as long as SEC does the right thing. Also UGA and Florida need to stop neutral sight nonsense. Probably means same for Texas and Oklahoma.
 
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#8
#8
They should already have 4x 4 team divisions but the plan is almost certainly to expand. 4x 5 team divisions makes a lot of sense. Play 4 in your division every year and 2 of the 5 in each of the others on a rotating home and away schedule. Or just go to 24 each in the SEC and BIG10.

Stop stealing from fans with the UT-Martin, Austin Peay, Texas Arlington, WKU, etc. farces of games.
 
#9
#9
vols 30 said:
Why play more with the current playoff format?
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They played a 10 game schedule for Covid and that didn’t stop Alabama from winning. More conference games = more 💰. Also, if they expand and give 4 guaranteed spots like they are talking about then it won’t matter how many games are played.
 
#11
#11
I could go w/ 9, but depends how committee will judge our SEC records. My biggest dislike of the old 8 game format before OK and TX joined SEC, was that UT and Auburn both had, on average, two L's w/ UGA/Bama every year...I've got no problem playing them every year...I love it. But, didn't like where other rivals would coast thru their schedules w/ much easier SEC schedules. Now that expansion has leveled the playing field that most all SEC teams have to run thru a gauntlet to win the SEC, I don't have a serious issue w/ staying at 8. 9 games would set up an epic schedule where there'd be 2-3 legit SEC matchups every week, and everyone would pretty much beat the hell out of each other...great for SEC saturdays...not so sure about post season set up though.
 
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#13
It needs to go to 9 conference games so we can have a 3-6 schedule model to preserve our rivalries.

-Permanent 3 Bama, Vandy, Kentucky
-Rotating 6 home and home for two year blocks

If we stay at 8 we will lose TSIO and Kentucky because Vandy will be our permanent rival plus 7 rotating.
 
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#14
#14
( SEC games means 8 more SEC losses distributed throughout the SEC...likely to cost the SEC one less team in the CFP...if guarantee 4 teams in it still only helps the Big 10....
 
#16
#16
I like playing SEC teams we don't see often. I don't want to have permanent rivals again. I want all SEC teams to see each other more. We don't play at Fayetteville, Jordan-Hare, Oxford, College Station, or Baton Rouge often enough, and they have been in our conference for a while.

So I oppose going with divisions again. I want to play TX. I want to play OU. There is plenty of turf in the SEC we barely ever play on. Let's play our conference members more. We have barely played West teams, besides Bama, in the SEC for 30 years.

Does it mean we play Bama 2out of 4 years? yes
If we are both in the hunt, it will matter more going forward.
 
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troopervol said:
( SEC games means 8 more SEC losses distributed throughout the SEC...likely to cost the SEC one less team in the CFP...if guarantee 4 teams in it still only helps the Big 10....
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I think there will be a scheduling agreement between the SEC and B1G, similar to the SEC/ACC challenge in basketball. I think that could give the SEC a potential leg up in the CFP selection process.
 
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#20
While I prefer 4/8 format in general, with 16 teams, the 3/9makes more sense.

I generally think that CFB has failed to provide enough solid matches between conferences. We never got to see Alabama vs Ohio State or USC vs Florida, etc. I almost wish they did something like the NFL where NCAA could schedule and they pushed some of the elite teams to play each other more often.

A classic example was in 2023 where there was a ton of cancellations and both Michigan and Georgia had teams cancelled on them. Why couldn't Georgia and Michigan just play each other in that example?
 
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cbrown said:
100%. Playing an odd number of conference games makes no sense to me. The uneven schedules already give teams an advantage some years. This will compound it. Home field advantage in the SEC is massive . . . a team having one more home game vs a team having one more road game is significant. The 17-game NFL schedule also disagrees with my sense of symmetry.
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Nine offends my sense of symmetry too. But maybe it helps competitive balance overall, because every other year half the conference’s schedule is one game harder than the other half’s so it’s pretty anti-dynasty.
 
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OrangeBeachVol said:
Are they still going to have a Conf championship game because if so that brings a bit disadvantage to the loser.
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There is discussion the "championship" game will become a CFP play in game.

For example, if there are 4 guaranteed SEC teams in the CFP, that Atlanta game would pit the 4th and 5th place teams in the SEC to see who gets the last guaranteed CFP spot.
 
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