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Before the SEC was split into divisions scheduling was left more to the school's than the conference and every team had several annual rivals.

Auburn's annual rivals were Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida.

Alabama annually played Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, and Mississippi State

Auburn went decade long stretches without playing Vanderbilt or Ole Miss.
Alabama went decade long stretches without playing Georgia or Florida

Even after the SEC split into divisions, for the first 10 years from 92-02 each team had two permanent cross-division rivals.
-Auburn's two were Georgia, and Florida
-Alabama's two were Tennessee... and Vandy

Now I know you weren't aware of any of this because it happened before 2008.... But 100+ years of that type of annual scheduling really adds up

This' BAMA played LSU, AU, TENN every year. They never went "decades" without playing Fla or GA. P.S. most years the Vandy game or 1 of the miss' schools didn't count as a conference game. Bear Bryant begged teams to play against Bama and scheduled some amazing games that no one in the SEC was doing at that time with any regularity. Nebraska, USC, PENN ST., Fla St., GA. Tech(when they were good)Cal, Wash., Ore st. Etc. When he asked OKLA, UCLA, MICH, tOSU, TEX, Notre Dame under ARA.P
They refused stating it would probably knock them out of the hunt for a MNC!
At that time the SEC was looked down upon in as BAMA and nobody else(sound familiar?)

If you're going to preach on this pulpit, for crying out loud, know the Bible from which you speak!

This post was edited on 5/3/20 at 12:54 pm