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New SEC Scheduling

  • They're about to meet in the upcoming weeks to talk about how they're gonna do the schedules for football come 2013.

    Main issue: 2 rotating teams from the opposite division or 1 permanent and 1 rotating a la Bama-UT / Auburn-UGA.

    Personally, if they stop the rivalries then this conference will have gone to ish. If you can't preserve traditions then you lose some of the magic in CFB.

    Plus I like an easy win

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  • Make sure UGA never plays LSU, Bama, or Arkansas again. Find a way to drop Florida off their schedule, too.

    Solved.

    This post was edited by mpcoan on 2/28/2012 at 10:06 AM

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  • If they keep the constants, I'm expecting them to be shifted around.

    Regardless, it will be interesting to see who gets gifted a schedule again because that's what they "had" to do to make it work. I'm ready with lube and cigarettes to get screwed.

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  • I think they will go to the 2 rotating which blows. Nothing like that epic UGA/Mizzou annual game or Aub/aTm. Will really look forward to those games.

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  • PTCcock195 said...

    If they keep the constants, I'm expecting them to be shifted around.

    Regardless, it will be interesting to see who gets gifted a schedule again because that's what they "had" to do to make it work. I'm ready with lube and cigarettes to get screwed.

    I will have a meltdown of Nova proportions if they discontinue the annual 3rd Saturday of October. A thousand banhammers won't be able to stop this meltdown

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  • Ichabod said...

    They're about to meet in the upcoming weeks to talk about how they're gonna do the schedules for football come 2013.

    Main issue: 2 rotating teams from the opposite division or 1 permanent and 1 rotating a la Bama-UT / Auburn-UGA.

    Personally, if they stop the rivalries then this conference will have gone to ish. If you can't preserve traditions then you lose some of the magic in CFB.

    Plus I like an easy win

    theyre going to have to do away with it though

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  • hate losing that game as well even though we have gotten our arses handed to us for the last 10 years ; its a huge part of my love for college football - nothing like it

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  • Ichabod said...

    I will have a meltdown of Nova proportions if they discontinue the annual 3rd Saturday of October. A thousand banhammers won't be able to stop this meltdown

    Bama/UT and AU/UGA will stay. I'm expecting Mizzou/Arky, UF/aTm, SCar/LSU. Edit: if they keep constants.

    This post was edited by PTCcock195 on 2/28/2012 at 10:57 AM

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  • I think they should keep the constants and make it to where you don't play one team from your division every year. So once every 6 years Bama wouldn't play Auburn - which would suck - but you keep the cross divisional rivalries in tact. I don' know what that would mean for tie-breakers but it at least seems like an option.

    If they keep the constants I wouldn't expect any changes, just making Mizzou and A&M rivals

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  • I don't see why uga vs Au, and bama vs Ut can't be kept and have the other 10 rotate. There is no way to keep everyone happy.

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  • I want LSU/Kentucky, I'm sick of playing Florida

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  • msudawg12 said...

    theyre going to have to do away with it though

    Bite your tounge

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  • shoeless7777 said...

    hate losing that game as well even though we have gotten our arses handed to us for the last 10 years ; its a huge part of my love for college football - nothing like it

    Now, Now my friend, only the past 5 years peace

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  • 14 is a crappy number for football conferences. Not enough to do the 4-4 team rotating divisions and but also so many that you will lose some old rivalries with cross-division teams. It sucks.

    Has their been any talks of increasing the in-conference schedule to 9 games? That would allow for one x-division "rival" and 2 rotating teams (which you would see once every 3 years/twice every 6)?

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by getmyjive11 on 2/28/2012 at 12:12 PM

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  • I hope they don't go to 9 conference games. Leave everything how it's now.

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  • CartierGator said...

    I hope they don't go to 9 conference games. Leave everything how it's now.

    But they can't "leave everything how it is" because of Mizzou and aTm.

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  • getmyjive11 said...

    But they can't "leave everything how it is" because of Mizzou and aTm.

    Why is that? Everyone still has their permanent cross division rivalry. Mizzou and ATM are on the schedule in '12. Why can't they leave it like it's going to be in '12? Have one permanent and rotate the other 2.

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  • Resurgent Vol said...

    Now, Now my friend, only the past 5 years

    okay seems like 10 years to me but would still hate to lose the game shrug

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  • CartierGator said...

    Why is that? Everyone still has their permanent cross division rivalry. Mizzou and ATM are on the schedule in '12. Why can't they leave it like it's going to be in '12? Have one permanent and rotate the other 2.

    because you have to take 1 of the 3 x-div games and use it for a new div game (a&m for west, mizzou for east).

    then, if you keep the locks, and you keep it home/away rotation every other year, you only play the other schools in other div once every 10 years.

    for example:

    bama:

    yearly div opp:
    lsu
    a&m
    au
    arky
    om
    msu
    tenn - the lock x-div opp

    that's 7 sec games per year. leaving 1 game for the rest per year.

    the east rotation for bama (keeping home/away rotation) (this is example, not real rotation)
    2012 - @ uf
    13 - uga
    14 - @uga
    15 - vandy
    16 - @ vandy
    17 - usc
    18 - @ usc
    19 - mizzou
    20 - @ mizzou
    21 - uk

    that's finally when we'd play each one of the east teams at least once.

    add a ninth game, and it goes:

    2012 - @uf, uga
    2013 - @uga, vandy
    2014 - @vandy, usc
    2015 - @ usc, mizzou
    2016 - @mizzou, uk

    that's what a 9th game does for you.

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  • Super Scooter said...

    I want LSU/Kentucky, I'm sick of playing Florida

    Honest question, why?

    Seems like its a great rivalry that's very good for each school.

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  • shoeless7777 said...

    okay seems like 10 years to me but would still hate to lose the game shrug

    Yeah, for sure. I was just wanting to feel a little bit better because it feels like forever, but it really hasn't been. Makes it better when we win biggrin (circa 1995)

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  • Really hope we can maintain the traditional rivalries for all of the original members of the SEC. Doesn't seem fair to punish teams that have tradition by taking away that tradition for the sake of a greater dominance of the conference name.

    Makes games less meaningful, IMO. If any game on your schedule is up for grabs, than they all mean about the same if interchanged.

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  • There is an easy solution, but they need to leave Missouri in the SEC East, which isn't a stretch considering they are just as far away from many of the SEC West schools as they are from Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Tennessee in the SEC East. They are going to travel regardless.

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    Alabama- Tennesse
    Georgia- Auburn
    Florida- Mississippi State
    South Carolina-Texas A&M
    Missouri-Arkansas
    Kentucky- LSU
    Ole Miss- Vanderbilt

    Then you have a rotating.

    You could also have SC play LSU, Aggies play Florida and UK continue to play Mississippi State

    Granted, some teams rarely play, but that's just how it is in a 14-team conference.

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  • fsufsu said...

    Honest question, why?

    Seems like its a great rivalry that's very good for each school.

    because they're pussies and will say they don't think it was a rivalry and they'll complaign the got a tough opp. both sides.

    what they won't tell you is they played every year from 1953-1991 (except 2 years). it was a well established game by the time the league split into divisions and made tie-ins.

    arky and usc were the new guys and got stuck together.

    ole miss and vandy played almost every year since the 30's, making it a natural, established rivalry.

    msu and uk is the one that just got thrown together. they'd only played 19 times total prior to 92, and that was sporadic at best.

    and of course you have bama/ut and au/uga to round out the locks.

    as for the strong opp, bama and ut are the only ones who had a complaint, as they were 1-2 in virtually every category prior to 92. (win%, wins, conf champs, bowls, bowl wins, top25 finishes, top 5 finish, #1 finishes, etc.)

    au/uga would be next as they are/were next in those rankings (most of them anyway).

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  • JC Shurburtt said...

    There is an easy solution, but they need to leave Missouri in the SEC East, which isn't a stretch considering they are just as far away from many of the SEC West schools as they are from Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Tennessee in the SEC East. They are going to travel regardless.

    Permanent

    Alabama- Tennesse
    Georgia- Auburn
    Florida- Mississippi State
    South Carolina-Texas A&M
    Missouri-Arkansas
    Kentucky- LSU
    Ole Miss- Vanderbilt

    Then you have a rotating.

    You could also have SC play LSU, Aggies play Florida and UK continue to play Mississippi State

    Granted, some teams rarely play, but that's just how it is in a 14-team conference.

    It seems like 4 division SEC conference is imminent. You'd have to think they go after another 2 teams in 5 years

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