SEC scheduling thought

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EconVol92

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I will start this by saying I want Bama every year.

But then I will say that I want to see the other teams in the west more often. I have an idea but maybe someone here would see a flaw that I’m missing.

I think that the teams should be seeded after every season and the set up in two divisions on the basis of odds and evens or 1,4,6,8,10,12,14 in one division and 2,3,5,7,9,11,13 in the other, but you play your current crossover no matter what and then one or two from the other grouping.

I think you would see teams more often and it would make some interesting end of the season discussion for the upcoming season.

Thoughts?
 
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The game isn't played on paper.

Last season, Auburn was supposed to contend for the playoffs. LSU and UF were supposed to suck.

There is simply no way to try to predict how a season will play out.
 
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I still love the tradition of playing Bama every year. It’s “Third Saturday in October” after all.

However, if it does ever change, I hope it changes to the proposed system where if you play for four years you will play at every SEC stadium and play every team at home at least once. If we are going to kill some traditional matchups, let’s at least replace it with something worthy of becoming a future tradition.
 
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All I know is that in three or four years I want the goofy Alabammers to cry to their inbred SEC minions in B'ham to please get UT off their yearly schedule.
 
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I made a thread about scheduling awhile ago and the point I was trying to make is scheduling really didn't stop a champion, but it did matter for the other schools where it might have made the difference between a 10-2 record and an 8-4 record and influence your bowl destination.

But, Florida has won 3 national titles.

In 96, they got Auburn (3rd in division), LSU (2nd in division), Arkansas (last in division), and then Alabama in the title game.
In 06, they got Auburn (2nd in division), LSU (3rd in division), Alabama (4th in division), and Arkansas in the title game.
In 08, they got Ole Miss (2nd in division), LSU (3rd in division), Arkansas (4th in division) and Alabama in the title game.

I know when Tennessee won the title in 98, their schedule was brutal.

So, if you are a champion, you are going to go win games. You don't win titles beating cupcakes.

Winning the SEC title game and two playoff games alone, means 3 games against Top 10 teams at the end of the year.
 
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It’s not that I want to change tradition or am afraid to play the best, but I would rather play the other teams more often. Some of those west teams have been in the SEC a long time also, and I would like to see us play them a lot more often, and with the divisions, it doesn’t really make sense to have a permanent crossover. It doesn’t help either side really, and I don’t think the majority of the fans care enough about it either.
 
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Howz about we quit playing the same 13 teams over and over and over in the first place? There are over 50 P5s and over 100 D1 teams to play. And for the past 2 generations we're stuck with the same 10-12 teams. Sucks. We played BYU for the first time EVER in history this season. Let that sink in.
 
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If the SEC were to ever eliminate divisions and give every team 3 permanent rivals, feel like we keep the Alabama rivalry, but lose Florida. Should be Bama, Vandy, and Kentucky; our 3 longest rivalries.
 
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I'd like to see conferencing scheduling go to hell and stay there. I like good football.

If you're in the top 20, you play a minimum of 5 top 20 teams the next year, in or out of your conference.

Let Bama play OSU regularly, Clemson play OU regularly, etc. Screw this, "wait for it, wait for it" crap ..... let's play good college football every week.
 
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Again I want Bama every year. If I wanted a cupcake schedule I’d want to move to a conference like the Big 10 or ACC.
 
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You have to play 2 divisions, that's in the rules. But the rules don't say the divisions have to be the same every year. I agree I would be glad to see ATM, OleMiss and LSU more often even if it means there are years without GA and UF. Could care less about SCAR other than hate losing to them. Need to play UA, VU and UK every year.
 
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9 game conference schedule. Rotate 2 other teams in cross conference. You’ll play the entire other conference in 3 seasons. (Keeping cross division rivals)
 
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rocky top buzz said:
You have to play 2 divisions, that's in the rules. But the rules don't say the divisions have to be the same every year. I agree I would be glad to see ATM, OleMiss and LSU more often even if it means there are years without GA and UF. Could care less about SCAR other than hate losing to them. Need to play UA, VU and UK every year.
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Not anymore. Big12 does not have separate divisions.
 
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TravisP2001 said:
Not anymore. Big12 does not have separate divisions.
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While the addendum to the rules that they play it under (noted below as “B”) doesn’t involve a requirement of separate divisions, it does require a full round robin schedule be used in its place if a divisional setup is not (and it’s also more designed for conferences having less than 10 teams):

Conferences that want to play championship games must either (A) play their championship game between division winners after round-robin competition in each division or

(B) between the top two teams in the conference standings following full round-robin, regular-season competition between all members of the conference.
 
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EconVol92 said:
I will start this by saying I want Bama every year.

But then I will say that I want to see the other teams in the west more often. I have an idea but maybe someone here would see a flaw that I’m missing.

I think that the teams should be seeded after every season and the set up in two divisions on the basis of odds and evens or 1,4,6,8,10,12,14 in one division and 2,3,5,7,9,11,13 in the other, but you play your current crossover no matter what and then one or two from the other grouping.

I think you would see teams more often and it would make some interesting end of the season discussion for the upcoming season.

Thoughts?
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Everyone keeps talking about making Tennessee's schedule more fair by not having Bama as its permanent opponent. I don't like that idea because I love the rivalry.

But I'll tell y'all what would be a program changer...playing Florida in November every year. That's what Fulmer needs to be fighting for.
 
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I really want to see Florida play Tennessee, Kentucky or Missouri in mid to late November.
 
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