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Clay Travis New SEC Schedule Idea: Thoughts?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:05 am
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:05 am
Clay Travis brought up an interesting topic on The Roundtable in B'ham this morning. The current SEC schedule makes it so that teams will complete a home and home series every 6 years. So for example, LSU will play @Tennessee during the 2017 season. That means LSU will not return to Knoxville until 2029.
Travis suggests eliminating permanent divisions and have a rotating schedule.
Every team gets three annual rival games and then rotates a home and home schedule with five SEC teams every other year. So as a hypothetical example without figuring out the kinks of a 14 team rotating schedule...
Auburn Schedule 2018
Alabama
@Georgia
@LSU
Missouri
Miss State
Florida
@Vanderbilt
@Arkansas
Auburn 2019 Schedule
@Alabama
Georgia
LSU
Texas A&M
Ole Miss
@Tennessee
@Kentucky
@South Carolina
Auburn 2020 Schedule
Alabama
@Georgia
@LSU
@Missouri
@Miss State
@Florida
Vanderbilt
Arkansas
Auburn 2021 Schedule
Alabama
@Georgia
LSU
@Texas A&M
@Ole Miss
Tennessee
Kentucky
South Carolina
This way every SEC football player would be guaranteed to play in every SEC stadium if they stay four years. Further, it makes it so that SEC fans are traveling to SEC cities and stadiums more often. I agree with Clay that part of being an SEC fan is going to away games and experience SEC games as a visitor.
Travis suggests eliminating permanent divisions and have a rotating schedule.
Every team gets three annual rival games and then rotates a home and home schedule with five SEC teams every other year. So as a hypothetical example without figuring out the kinks of a 14 team rotating schedule...
Auburn Schedule 2018
Alabama
@Georgia
@LSU
Missouri
Miss State
Florida
@Vanderbilt
@Arkansas
Auburn 2019 Schedule
@Alabama
Georgia
LSU
Texas A&M
Ole Miss
@Tennessee
@Kentucky
@South Carolina
Auburn 2020 Schedule
Alabama
@Georgia
@LSU
@Missouri
@Miss State
@Florida
Vanderbilt
Arkansas
Auburn 2021 Schedule
Alabama
@Georgia
LSU
@Texas A&M
@Ole Miss
Tennessee
Kentucky
South Carolina
This way every SEC football player would be guaranteed to play in every SEC stadium if they stay four years. Further, it makes it so that SEC fans are traveling to SEC cities and stadiums more often. I agree with Clay that part of being an SEC fan is going to away games and experience SEC games as a visitor.
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Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:06 am to StringedInstruments
I like it.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:07 am to StringedInstruments
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Alabama
@Georgia
@LSU
Now thats getting the shite end of the stick if you have to play those 3 teams every year
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:08 am to StringedInstruments
It would be great. But isn't that illegal right now (eliminating divisions but still having a CCG), according to the NCAA?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:09 am to Whoopdedo_LSU
quote:
Alabama
@Georgia
@LSU
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Now thats getting the shite end of the stick if you have to play those 3 teams every year
Yeah I would hate that!
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:10 am to StringedInstruments
anything is better than the current disaster we have right now.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:11 am to Whoopdedo_LSU
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Now thats getting the shite end of the stick if you have to play those 3 teams every year
We already do? And sometimes finish the season with @Georgia and @Alabama.
And it wasn't too long ago that Auburn-LSU played late in October.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:14 am to StringedInstruments
AU/UF wouldn't be annual?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:17 am to StringedInstruments
I just don't get why we don't play a 9 game conference schedule and eliminate 1 crap or non power-5 team each year.
This year here's who the teams would eliminate
Ala: Fresno, CSU, or Mercer
Ark: FAMU, NMSU, or CCU
Aub: Mercer, or ULM
UF: Northern Colorado or UAB
UGA: App St or Samford
UK: USM, EKY, or EMU
LSU: Chatt or Troy
OM: USA, UT-Martin, or ULL
Miss St: Charleston Southern, LT, or UMass
Miz: Missouri St. or Idaho
SC: Louisiana Tech or Wofford
Ten: Indiana State, UMass, or USM
A&M: Nicholls, ULL, or New Mexico
Vandy: MTSU, Alabama A&M, or Western KY
It's just really not that hard for us to do this.
This year here's who the teams would eliminate
Ala: Fresno, CSU, or Mercer
Ark: FAMU, NMSU, or CCU
Aub: Mercer, or ULM
UF: Northern Colorado or UAB
UGA: App St or Samford
UK: USM, EKY, or EMU
LSU: Chatt or Troy
OM: USA, UT-Martin, or ULL
Miss St: Charleston Southern, LT, or UMass
Miz: Missouri St. or Idaho
SC: Louisiana Tech or Wofford
Ten: Indiana State, UMass, or USM
A&M: Nicholls, ULL, or New Mexico
Vandy: MTSU, Alabama A&M, or Western KY
It's just really not that hard for us to do this.
This post was edited on 8/22/17 at 11:26 am
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:17 am to StringedInstruments
UF would get Georgia, Tennessee, and LSU I would assume.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:18 am to Gatorbait2008
You've gotta have Auburn in there.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:20 am to Dawgsontop34
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I just don't get why we don't play a 9 game conference schedule and eliminate 1 crap team each year.
+1
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:24 am to Korin
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AU/UF wouldn't be annual?
Just hypothetical. Switch LSU and Florida if you want. I personally see LSU as more of a rival for Auburn but I can see the argument for Florida.
Point is to show how everyone gets to play everyone every other year without having to wait over a decade to return to the opponent's stadium.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:24 am to StringedInstruments
Scott Stricklin made an interesting comment on Twitter yesterday.
Responding to a Tweet about SEC schedules:
I'd love to see him champion a move to one of the various models. It's going to take an AD from a powerful school to lead this effort.
Responding to a Tweet about SEC schedules:
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Suboptimal. Would love to see a model that offers more rotation in the schedule.
I'd love to see him champion a move to one of the various models. It's going to take an AD from a powerful school to lead this effort.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:25 am to Rhino5
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I just don't get why we don't play a 9 game conference schedule and eliminate 1 crap team each year.
+1
+2. That garbage weekend right before rivalry weekend needs to go. Mercer? Really?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:26 am to StringedInstruments
I'm all for the idea of playing cross-division opponents more often. Which is why I am in favor of a 9-game conference schedule
I think this would lead to wide schedule imbalance between teams and from one year to the next. I mean there could be a scenario where a team could avoid every single member of the big 6. Is it really playing an SEC schedule if you're beating up on Mizzou, A&M, SC, Arky, Kentucky, Vandy, and the Mississippi schools?
I think this would lead to wide schedule imbalance between teams and from one year to the next. I mean there could be a scenario where a team could avoid every single member of the big 6. Is it really playing an SEC schedule if you're beating up on Mizzou, A&M, SC, Arky, Kentucky, Vandy, and the Mississippi schools?
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:27 am to bgator85
Kentucky is in a better position as the schedule sits right now. Having miss state is better for us than tennessee vs alabama.
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:28 am to StringedInstruments
quote:stopped reading there
Clay Travis
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:28 am to StringedInstruments
quote:stopped reading there
Clay Travis
Posted on 8/22/17 at 11:28 am to StopRobot
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That garbage weekend right before rivalry weekend needs to go. Mercer? Really?
There are plenty of other crap teams we play that can be eliminated as well. I know the ACC only has an 8 game conference schedule as well, and we think our conference is so tough we only need 8, but the B1G, Big 12, and Pac 12 all have 9 game conference schedules.
We should absolutely follow their lead.
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