re: Chris Low of ESPN with some interesting reminders re: Auburn to the East

Always can do some tweaking to it. Just trying to make an example that its possible to keep just about all of the major rivalry games playing every year, but make the conference scheduling as balanced as possible. If divisions ever were eliminated, then at the current 14 school and 8 SEC game schedule, 3 rivalry games is ideal because then it leaves 10 other schools to play and the scheduling would be fairly simple. 5 one year, other 5 the following year...alternating home and away.

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Everyone keeps talking about the 9 game conference schedule.

Nobody is talking about have some teams getting to play 5 home games with others only having 4 home games and how that is inherently unfair.

That's a bigger problem to be sorted out if you ask me.

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It would even out every other year when teams have 4 home games one year and 5 the next. But I like the current 8 games. I think if SEC went to 9 games, it may jeopardize some big non-conference rivalry games and may deter teams from scheduling higher quality non-conference games in home-and-home or neutral site games. For instance, LSU currently has future home-and-home's scheduled with Texas, Oklahoma, and UCLA. Would they have scheduled those types of games if there was a 9 game SEC schedule and 1 extra road game every other year? Or would they have been content to schedule all 3 non-conference games vs lesser competition that would come to Baton Rouge without getting a home game in return?

Slive was not a pussy willow blowing in the wind.......

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I like it in theory, but with the current state of the East, it would get old seeing the Iron Bowl in consecutive weeks.

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Again move Alabama to the east as well. Problem solved.