What if the SEC looked like this?

#51
#51
99gator said:
And complain about it every single season.

Everyone plays 3 of 4 traditional heavyweights.

2 from your own division, 1 from the other division except for the abnormal occasion where you get 2 from the other division like Tennessee did last year.

Alabama gets Auburn, LSU, Tennessee
Auburn gets Alabama, LSU, Georgia
LSU gets Alabama, Auburn, Florida
Tennessee gets Florida, Georgia, Alabama
Florida gets Tennessee, Georgia, LSU
Georgia gets Florida, Tennessee, Auburn

It has the appearance of being unfair when a school or schools do not hold up their end of the bargain.
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I hear what you are saying....so flip out the LSU Game for Auburn with Arkansas...Ole Miss, Miss State. Can't say what's going to happen to any of those schools in the years to come. They may get stronger or weaker.

You can manipulate so that it works out into the 3 tough game scenario.

All I was stating is swap Auburn and Missouri. Auburn has the Iron bowl So its going to happen and Tennessee will keep the 3rd Saturday in Oct. Put the other lock in opponent as Ole Miss.

LSU makes more sense because of travel

At present we are on a 5-1-2 schedule
All I am doing is changing it to a 5-2-1
Switching Auburn and Missouri.
 
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#54
Brave Volunteer said:
IMO the SEC should consist of the following...

Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
Florida State
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Kentucky
Louisville
Mississippi State
North Carolina
NC State
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

To me, this makes the most sense geographically and all the in state rivals would be under the same conference, which would make those games at the end of the season have more meaning. I would eliminate the divisions, play 10 in-conference games per year with 8 permanent SEC opponents and 2 rotating opponents. That way every player who stays 4 years will have the opportunity to face every SEC opponent in the conference at least once.

Then the ACC can pick up Central Florida, South Florida, Memphis, Western KY, etc and go back to being the **** conference that it is.
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If you are going to blow up the conferences and ignore conference buyouts to get out, then just move us back to pre 92 teams and play 9 IC games. Creates a clear champion with one less game. That game will be used soon enough in the 8 team playoff.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
If you are going to blow up the conferences and ignore conference buyouts to get out, then just move us back to pre 92 teams and play 9 IC games. Creates a clear champion with one less game. That game will be used soon enough in the 8 team playoff.
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A round robin is less likely to procuce a clear champion than a title game.
 
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#56
jwp1983 said:
I'd like to see Clemson jump in and drop SCAR. Would make the east more competitive.
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Seeing as UT has dropped you out of the hunt 2 of the last 4 years, and you aren't even close to the number that the Gators have racked up, I'd say you may want to beat what's here regularly first before you go asking for more trouble.
 
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#60
Does Tennessee "have to play Alabama" every year or "want to play Alabama" every year?
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Well suuuum Butch! So it is! Fine, I'll revise my original post.

Despite LSU technically being east of the Mississippi I still think it makes more sense to put them in with the likes of Texas, Oklahoma, OK State, etc along with Texas A&M, Arkansas, Mizzou, etc.
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Moved to Baton Rouge fresh out of college in 1976 (that's where most of the work was for chemical engineers) and having hardly been outside of TN except for co-op work in Cleveland and Louisville, south Louisiana was like a whole other country. So yeah.
 
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#63
volfanbill said:
Since so many people need help, here’s a map of Tiger stadium in relation to the nearby mighty Mississippi
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You could forgive everyone for thinking BR is west of the Mississippi since OP’s map has us about 100mi west of our actual location, somewhere between Lafayette and Lake Charles. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
Seeing as UT has dropped you out of the hunt 2 of the last 4 years, and you aren't even close to the number that the Gators have racked up, I'd say you may want to beat what's here regularly first before you go asking for more trouble.
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I'm not looking for trouble. I would want to take a more SEC-like team out of the ACC and put them in the SEC, and give the ACC SCAR back.
 
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#69
Catbone said:
Yeah I wish GA tech would replace Missouri. Would help us and hurt UGA
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That's speculation, chances are better it would hurt UT, USC and AU more than it would hurt UGA. Right now, playing in the SEC isn't a much bigger pull than playing in the SEC if any. ACC has owned rivalry weekend the last few years winning 3 of the 4 games between the SEC and ACC on that weekend.
 
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#70
82_VOL_83 said:
If you are going to blow up the conferences and ignore conference buyouts to get out, then just move us back to pre 92 teams and play 9 IC games. Creates a clear champion with one less game. That game will be used soon enough in the 8 team playoff.
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Baylor and TCU beg to differ.
 
#71
#71
SNAFU said:
I would go a bit farther back and switch GaTech with Vandy. Vandy needs to be in the ACC.
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Why? Vandy has improved but if we get back to where we are supposed to be that is an automatic ass kicking for Vandy and GT is no push over. I liked automatic wins in 90’s.
 
#72
#72
No. The solution is simple. Go to a 6-2 schedule, rotating the cross-divisional opponents such that every team plays every other within each 4-year cycle. On those years that UGA isn't scheduled against Auburn and UT isn't scheduled against Bama, let these schools elect to use one of their 4 remaining games to play each other and keep their annual rivalries alive. Tune up the divisional & conference championship rules to ignore and/or make these "OOC" games last consideration tie-breakers.
 
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RavinDave said:
Moved to Baton Rouge fresh out of college in 1976 (that's where most of the work was for chemical engineers) and having hardly been outside of TN except for co-op work in Cleveland and Louisville, south Louisiana was like a whole other country. So yeah.
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I heard someone tell a story of traveling to Mizzou to see a game a couple of years ago. They said they went to a restaurant and they didn't have sweet tea! That crap is unacceptable! If you play in a state where restaurants do not serve sweet tea, then you have no damn business being in the Southeastern Conference!

Like I said before, SEC should be made up only of teams EAST of the Mississippi and SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line!
 
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#74
#74
Denton'sGhostGBO said:
I am sure it has been talked about before on here, but what if the SEC was North and South instead of East and WEST. UGA and South Carolina are interchangeable as they sit almost parallel on the map.
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I say draw a vertical line between B'ham and Tuscaloosa, then have East/West Divisions that look like this:

East

Auburn
Georgia
Kentucky
Florida
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vandy

West

Alabama
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Ole Miss
Texas A&M

Definite shift in the balance of power.
 
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#75
ClockworkOrange said:
I say draw a vertical line between B'ham and Tuscaloosa, then have East/West Divisions that look like this:

East

Auburn
Georgia
Kentucky
Florida
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vandy

West

Alabama
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Ole Miss
Texas A&M

Definite shift in the balance of power.
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Only problem with that is it would eliminate Alabama as our permanent west opponent because there's no way they're not going to play Auburn every year.
 
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