The Blue Board

It could be done. Like others have stated though, it would take a considerable amount of time before you rotated back to said team. It really doesn't matter to me either way. I'm just not a huge fan of major change.

Neither am I. F change

you can't keep it at 8 games, keep the lock, AND rotate 2 x-div opp.

you now have 6 div opp. (was 5 until mizzou and a&m were added).

plus 1 more for the lock, and that's 7 games set on the schedule every year.

now you either have 1 game/y to rotate, or you could go to 9 conf games and rotate 2. or drop the lock and rotate 2.

like i said before, this is an 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.

staying at 8 games (and keeping the lock) you got:

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.

could be great but also could be great but dont like 14 teams period

What he's trying to say is you wouldn't have 1 permanent cross division and 2 rotating. You would have 1 permanent and 1 rotating since aTm and Mizzou are now here and they will be taking up one of the games. That is unless we went to a 9 game conference schedule.

Uga's new west permenent will be ole miss. Then they draw Miss st and a late season rematch with ole miss

Technically, every team has a cross division rival and you would probably hear whining from some teams if that scenario went down

2 ways that i see it.

either get it ok'd to have a semi.

or pick (some way, bcs rank, record, etc.) the top 2 teams and have a single game.

but as for playing everyone in your conf (in a 16 team conf), the 4 div (i hate the "pod" term) setup is best.

and i'd go like this:

9 game conf schedule
3 - div games
3 - 1 lock from each other div (to save rivalries)
3 - rotate the rest in each div.

it'd take 5 years to see each team, but that's as short as it can get. and you also protect rivalries.

so, as example, say this is the new sec (assuming we add from the nc, virginia, wv, etc., area).

west:
lsu
a&m
mizzou
arky

south:
bama
au
msu
om

east:
uf
usc
uga
vandy

north:
ut
uk
team 1
team 2

and bama's schedule would be something like:

div - au, msu, om
locks - ut, vandy, arky
rotate - uk, uga, a&m (or pick 1 more from each div except south)

honestly, i wish we'd get the top dogs and just form a 64 team league.
4 16-team conf, set them up like i posted
have a semi then final for conf champs.
then the conf champs have another 4 team tourny for national champs.

have a 12 game schedule, and play 1 team from each other conf in the ooc games.

You'd be bitching too if you ran the table in your division, lost the division because of schedule difficulty, then the conference changed our schedule for the next season to remove the only other difficult opponent, and gave you another tough road game.

Have fun getting Mizzou's SEC cherry popped on you in September.

I think we end up dropping Florida (might have already happened) and add USCjr

not sure if that is good or bad news