permanent cross-divisional sec games

Honestly, I like playing Florida every year. It’s always a fun game. I can’t think of another east opponent i’d Rather play regularly other than Georgia maybe.


Though it would be fun to beat up on mizzou more often. Mizz-poo sucks.

We have uga. Shut the frick up.

When do you start typing about refs, Steve Shaw and Ritter, the FBI, no hot chocolate in Fayetteville when it is cold... waaaahhhhhh, honk OMG it’s so unfair,

Keep this in mind Pierre, losing to Florida hasn't kept LSU out of the SEC champ game ever. And it hasn’t really caused LSU to finish no better than third in the SEC West the last few years. But go ahead and publically wail and gnash teeth... better yet run to the big XII where they will welcome your opinion about who should play who. LUSers.... wow, just wow.

Here's the bottom line gist of this thread.

Tennessee is an auto win for Bama and will be for the foreseeable future.

No team in college football history has had an easier time with their supposed rival than Alabama has bad with Tennessee.

Plenty of us can imagine Bama running off 20+ consecutive wins over Tennessee .... and that's just not right when we're talking cross divisional permanent rivals. If the tables were turned Bama fans would agree.

There is no redeeming value in the Bama vs Tennessee TSIO game anymore. It's over, it's history yet it is affecting the entire conference in a negative manner.

That's all we're saying.

I mean even a blind pig finds an acorn from time to time but not Tennessee ... and the game has become an embarrassment. If nothing else Bama should show some mercy.

On the other hand there is something particularly delicious about it being Bama who gets to inflict so much pain on the Vols after what the Vols and Pfat Phil did in the Albert Means case. So I get that.

But what is happening right now is bad for the conference.

Let Auburn come to the East, make Auburn Bama's permanent cross division rival and everything will be right in the world. Think of the possibilities.

It's the way things should be and we ALL know it.

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this really needs to be revisted
bama who just so happens to be neighbor with sec headquarters gets to play tenn while lsu has florida yea that is fair..

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Since 2013,

Alabama
Auburn
Mississippi state
Mississippi

Mizzou
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
South Carolina

.....Have aleast a 2nd place finish in their own SEC division.

If you guys post crybaby cross division schedule threads on the secrant a little more often, those of us that make the sec schedules may consider changing things for you.

Name one fricking year that Florida beats Bama since 2008

2009: Bama won 32-13
2010: 31-6
2011: 38-10
2012: Maybe. Bama went 12-1. UF went 11-2
2013: Nope. Bama went 11-2, UF went 4-8
2014: Bama won 42-21
2015: Bama won 29-15
2016: Bama won 54-16
2017: Florida went 4-7
2018: Florida was good Bama was better

You all agreed to it at expansion, and it was a condition of expanding the SEC. UGA, Auburn, Bama and UT would have vetoed.

It is not Bama's fault that UT has fallen and cannot get up, and I did not see you all complaining during the years that UF was 4-8 and whatever they were in that last year under McElwain.

I've never understood why LSU whines about this. The only team that should be complaining is Tennessee. We're the only team in the conference that is put at a disadvantage every year in division play because a loss to BAMA counts the same as a loss to a team in the East. Georgia, Florida, et al don't start the year with an auto-loss.

You have to be cognizant of the FACT that certain other schools WANT/NEED to keep their own permanent opponents so they can have an easier path to bowl games...i.e. Ole Ms/Vandy/KY/ARky/MO/SC ALL want to keep the easier opponent and will NEVER vote for a 'balance/fair' schedule !