Revised SEC Scheduling

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#52
Alabama - Auburn, Mississippi St, Tennessee
Arkansas - Texas A&M, Missouri, LSU
Auburn - Alabama, Florida, Georgia
Florida - Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn
Georgia - Florida, Auburn, South Carolina
Kentucky - Mississippi St, South Carolina, Vanderbilt
LSU - Arkansas, Texas A&M, Ole Miss
Mississippi St - Ole Miss, Kentucky, Alabama
Missouri - South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas A&M
Ole Miss - LSU, Vanderbilt, Mississippi St
South Carolina - Kentucky, Georgia, Missouri
Tennessee - Vanderbilt, Alabama, Florida
Texas A&M - Missouri, LSU, Arkansas
Vanderbilt - Tennessee, Ole Miss, Kentucky
 
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#53
Not bad. I like that we’d play every team twice in four years. I hate the way the schedule is now.

How would the conference championship play out? Top 2?
 
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#55
airvols said:
The only loser mentality is the one that believes it’s a level playing field. Does Georgia playBama every year NO, does Florida play BAMA every year NO, do think their record would be different if they did. YES. If we are good enough, we will get them in the championship game anyway. Use you head and not your ego.
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Coming into this year, since the SEC split into divisions in 1992:

Bama's record against every one other than UT is 220-85-1

LSU's record against everyone other than UF is 220-89-1

And Auburn's record against everyone other than UGA is 214-95-1.

That's pretty level.
 
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volfannbama said:
Name the year that losing to alabama has cost us anything the last 10 years?
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I may be in the minority here but I feel it has cost us a lot in recruiting. If FL and GA are offering the same player, they have a better path to the East since they will never play AL in regular season. I know AL will have their lows again at some point, but I would be fine playing them twice every four years. That goes for all the teams on our schedule, I would prefer variety over same schedule every year. Lots of road trips we could go to that we currently aren’t able to.
 
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volfannbama said:
How is alabama / kentucky.considered a rivalry? Put Tennessee Alabama back on there and I would like it.
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Man you must really enjoy watching Tennessee get destroyed every year. And you live in Bama lol. Cant be fun. I know because I live here too. It's a freaking embarrassment.
 
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#59
If we only play, no more than 4 SEC per year, one of those always being Vandy, and 8 cupcake games, we should be able to have at least 6 wins, every year-thus as the years go by, we could brag on the number of bowl games we go to, and our coaches would be able to keep their jobs for a decade or more....now that's the way to get a winning program!
 
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DNBVOL said:
Man you must really enjoy watching Tennessee get destroyed every year. And you live in Bama lol. Cant be fun. I know because I live here too. It's a freaking embarrassment.
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Whats embarrassing is getting killed by vandy , mizzu etc. Losing to florida 13 of 14 years. Alabama beats nearly everyone they play. If we were competitive with teams on our schedule and won most it wouldnt be that big of a deal. Just like tam, auburn etc, get competitive and sooner or later they will slip up and we would beat them. Everyone focuses on that one game, be are not even competitive with the lower tier sec teams.
 
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tpsdave said:
SEC needs to play nine conference games. The non conference schedule for most schools in the SEC is an absolute joke.
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Finally! 9 conference games should be requirement! 3 OOC games 2 must be other P5 or major independence! No FCS teams at all! If you schedule a FCS can not count as win but can be a loss!
 
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boomvol said:
I got bored and started playing with some of the proposed rivalry pods and came up with a few tweaks that I felt like made more sense. Obviously there's no way to make them prefect and I'm sure I overlooked a major game, but there are some things that I didn't agree with in that initial list:


Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee, LSU
Arkansas: Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Missouri
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, LSU
Florida: LSU, Tennessee, Georgia
Georgia: Auburn, Florida, South Carolina
Kentucky: Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State
LSU: Florida, Alabama, Auburn
Mississippi State: Ole Miss, Arkansas, Kentucky
Missouri: Texas A&M, South Carolina, Arkansas
Ole Miss: Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Texas A&M
South Carolina: Georgia, Missouri, Kentucky
Tennessee: Florida, Alabama, Vanderbilt
Texas A&M: Arkansas, Missouri, Ole Miss
Vanderbilt: Ole Miss, Tennessee, Kentucky
EDIT: realized I left off Auburn/LSU. Fixed it and I think it still works
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I like the concept, including playing AL and FLA every year. Some of your changes are needed, but look at the disparity between LSU and Auburn's pods (3 "A" teams) versus either KY or MSU (play "B" and "C" teams only). Mississippi State gets one hell of break with such a lineup.
 
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#63
1) Get rid of Missouri, Texas A&M, Arkansas & South Carolina from the SEC.
2) Have Tennessee play Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky & Vanderbilt as our permanent rivals.
3) Rotate Florida, Georgia, LSU and Mississippi State.
 
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I'm for dropping bammer as an annual opponent. It's not fair to us. Georgia and Florida don't have to play them every year. When we get good again, we'll have to play them twice a year.
Rotate ALL the West teams.
 
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mad4vols said:
1) Get rid of Missouri, Texas A&M, Arkansas & South Carolina from the SEC.
2) Have Tennessee play Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky & Vanderbilt as our permanent rivals.
3) Rotate Florida, Georgia, LSU and Mississippi State.
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Hey, that sounds familiar. Like pre-1992. I like it.
 
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Tennessee gets 2 of the weakest sisters ( historically) in the SEC?

BTW, explain how Texas A&M and MO are southern teams!? If sweet tea and grits are not routinely served on campus, it cannot be an SEC team!
 
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rdk4121 said:
The easiest way to do this is to send A&M and Missouri back to the big 12. That is what I'd prefer. That way we'd play 3 west teams a year again.
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Take Arkansas and USCe with them!
 
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bigorangedude said:
I like the concept, including playing AL and FLA every year. Some of your changes are needed, but look at the disparity between LSU and Auburn's pods (3 "A" teams) versus either KY or MSU (play "B" and "C" teams only). Mississippi State gets one hell of break with such a lineup.
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I think that is one of the major issues in trying to implement a system like this. So many of the SEC bluebloods that are typically powerhouses have rivalries with other bluebloods. Like everything else in the SEC, even the rivalries are top heavy. Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee all have the more difficult rivalry pods because of the history (and more importantly, the money) behind these programs and their distain for each other. The rest of the SEC is either too irrelevant (see Kentucky, Vandy, Mississippi State, etc.) or too new to the landscape (particularly A&M, who is maybe richest program in the conference) to have multiple meaningful rivalries established.
 
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#69
I really don’t like the way the current division setup impacts scheduling. aTm has been in since 2012 and haven’t been to Knoxville. We’ve played them once in 7 years.
So this would be a real improvement IMO.
 
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#70
major college football should be made of 80 teams of 8 (10 team) conferences. The winners all play in an 8 team quarterfinal playoff system. The money made from the quarterfinals would offset any loss of revenue from conference championship games.°
 
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DNBVOL said:
Man you must really enjoy watching Tennessee get destroyed every year. And you live in Bama lol. Cant be fun. I know because I live here too. It's a freaking embarrassment.
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You know what’s embarrassing?
Georgia State 38
Tennessee 30

Georgia State 10
Western Michigan 57
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
I saw this the other day. For the Vols he has - Tennessee: Alabama, Florida, Vanderbilt .

I would rather have Auburn than Florida, and not because we can't beat Florida, but that was turning into a great series pre-division.
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I like auburn, good fans, good away game. I take them
 
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bobkitten said:
Tennessee gets 2 of the weakest sisters ( historically) in the SEC?

BTW, explain how Texas A&M and MO are southern teams!? If sweet tea and grits are not routinely served on campus, it cannot be an SEC team!
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Well that removes UT. I grew up in a SMALL Tennessee town and I never had grits until long after I left it. Still can't stand it.

And I only drink unsweet tea. Gallons at a time.
 
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rdk4121 said:
The easiest way to do this is to send A&M and Missouri back to the big 12. That is what I'd prefer. That way we'd play 3 west teams a year again.
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Nah. A&M had been begging to come to the SEC for awhile now.

As someone who loves college football in general I would like to see the Texas vs Texas A&M and Missouri vs Kansas rivalries renewed. That would require Arkansas vs LSU to be moved back to the end of the season. Which is possible.
 
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