re: 2014 SEC Football Schedule to be Released Wednesday

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Negative. We know that (some) LSU fans are constantly looking for excuses. The schedule has been the convenient one lately, but before that it was Mulligans, PP7 was in bounds, refs never call holding on Bama, it goes on and on.

The 2014 schedule excuse is "of course Bama gets Florida at home. The schedule makers just refuse to make Bama go on the road". Nevermind that the last time the two teams met in the regular season it was AT Florida. Nevermind the fact that Florida plays cross division rotating opponent AT home this year while Bama plays cross division rotating opponent on the road. Those facts don't further the LSU propaganda and excuses. Like I said, you sound pathetic. Probably because you are.

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If you don't understand how much bigger of a deal rotating opponents are under a 6-1-1 than they were under a 5-2-1 then you're not very smart.

The rotations now play a huge role in who ends up going to Atlanta. Just look at last season for instance. LSU, Texas A&M and Alabama all beat each other and went 5-1 against the SEC West. LSU and A&M both played at least one of the top 2 teams in the East. Alabama played none. Guess who went to Atlanta?

I don't care about holding calls or interceptions or mulligans or even who gets who at home and when. I care about competitive balance. We shouldn't have a league where the schedule makers have a large hand in who represents each division in Atlanta but right now that's the way it is. I don't think there's a conspiracy or anything like that, It's a complete clusterfrick to try to make a 14 team, 8 game schedule and still include all these permanent games from the other division and the league office hasn't been able to figure it out. That's affecting all of us. Luckily for you it has affected you in a positive way so you don't really care about it. That's all fine and good but to just call us "whiners" or whatever when it has been affecting us negatively is just a cheap and empty response as is the nonsense I'm responding to here. ADDRESS THE DAMN ISSUE FOR A CHANGE!!!

Bama doesn't return to UF in 2015

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Robbie Andreu
?@RobbieAndreu

My bad. The 2014 schedule is a one-year deal. Alabama is not UF's rotating opponent from the West. TBD

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My bad. The 2014 schedule is a one-year deal. Alabama is not UF's rotating opponent from the West. TBD

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Obviously. Rotating East-West matchups have only been for one year since we went to 14 teams. That's no secret and shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. You don't see LSU @USCe or A&M@UF or Mizzou@Alabama this year do you? Alabama will likely be at USC or at UGA in 2015.

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The rotations now play a huge role in who ends up going to Atlanta. Just look at last season for instance. LSU, Texas A&M and Alabama all beat each other and went 5-1 against the SEC West. LSU and A&M both played at least one of the top 2 teams in the East. Alabama played none. Guess who went to Atlanta?

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Same thing happened in the East last year, too. UGA, USC, UF all went 5-1 against the east, and all beat each other. USC and UF played at least one top team from the west, with UF getting the shaft and playing both. UGA played none. UGA in Atlanta.

Scheduling matters. It shouldn't, but it does.

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Scheduling matters. It shouldn't, but it does.

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And when the schedule is not even based off of a rotation, it's just randomly put together by some Alabama grad, and Alabama (and UGA) just happend to benefit from that "random" schedule every year...

If it looks like a rat, walks like a rat, and smells like a rat...

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wonder if the hold off to 2016 means...
1 - 9 games, probably
2 - expansion
3 - both

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The problem that I have with the 9-game schedule is that it completely screws over those schools that have annual games outside of the conference. UK/UL, USC/CLEM, UF/FSU, and UGA/GT (if Tech ever gets their act together) also have to be factored into the equation. If, and it's a big if, but if the Big 12-2 would quit being pussies, aTm/Tx and Mizzou/Kansas would resume. That's more than half the league that gets dicked over in a nine-game conference schedule.

People already complain enough about the lack of quality OOC scheduling amongst SEC schools. It'll only get worse with a nine-game sched. You can say goodbye to legit OOC matchups such as UGA/Clem, USC/UNC, UTK/Oregon, MSU/OkieState, Bama/VT, etc.

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and Alabama (and UGA) just happend to benefit from that "random" schedule every year...

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How will we benefit next year? We play UF early in the season while breaking in a new QB. I wouldn't consider that getting a break. And do throw out the fact that we don't get a return trip to the swamp, because we will more than likely go to UGA in 2015.

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Auburn will probably go to UGA in 2015 as well.

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I am thinking it will be the bama game that gets switched H&A, not UGA with this new release

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because we will more than likely go to UGA in 2015.

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You were "more than likely" supposed to play UGA this and got kentucky instead.