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How Can Auburn Play UF & Tennessee Regularly
Posted on 5/21/15 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 2:57 pm
*In Football Without moving to the East or going to a 9 game conference Schedule? There's talk of the ACC eliminating divisions, would that work for the SEC?
I don't really want to stop playing LSU every year and the Iron Bowl & DSOR stays for obvious reasons but everything else is fair game
I don't really want to stop playing LSU every year and the Iron Bowl & DSOR stays for obvious reasons but everything else is fair game
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 2:58 pm
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:00 pm to undecided
You can always do the old..."play a conference team as a non-conference game".
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:03 pm to madmaxvol
Don't think SEC Office allows
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:08 pm to undecided
Does UF & UT want to play y'all?
I mean UT already plays UGA/UF/USC/Bama and UF already plays UGA/UT/USC/LSU.....Auburn beat both UT & UF pretty good the last few times y'all played.
I mean UT already plays UGA/UF/USC/Bama and UF already plays UGA/UT/USC/LSU.....Auburn beat both UT & UF pretty good the last few times y'all played.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:08 pm to undecided
One way of doing it is to have 2 permanent rivals that rotate every other year: For example, Tenn plays Bama in 15 then Auburn in 16 then play Bama agains in 17. Or Florida could drop their perma rival and make Auburn theirs or they could rotate between LSU/Auburn.
Auburn would have to choose one extra rival to rotate (either UF or UT) between playing Georgia with as playing all three wouldn't quite work. Florida would probably be the easiest to convince since I don't think they're attached to playing LSU every year. But I don't know who UGA would want to add for their rotation (maybe LSU) if that happened.
That's something that could be done without really changing things much. There are other ways of doing it that would require much bigger changes.
Auburn would have to choose one extra rival to rotate (either UF or UT) between playing Georgia with as playing all three wouldn't quite work. Florida would probably be the easiest to convince since I don't think they're attached to playing LSU every year. But I don't know who UGA would want to add for their rotation (maybe LSU) if that happened.
That's something that could be done without really changing things much. There are other ways of doing it that would require much bigger changes.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:24 pm to undecided
UT? Is that some kind of rivalry i've never heard about? I thought AU was more of an UGA rival.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:26 pm to undecided
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Without moving to the East or going to a 9 game conference Schedule?
I liked the idea of 3 permanent SEC opponents and rotate everybody else (8 game sked) each year. AU's permanent opponents could (to answer your hypothetical question) be bama/uga/uf, so that takes care of uf, then they would rotate UT on the schedule every few years.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:41 pm to rebelrouser
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UT? Is that some kind of rivalry i've never heard about? I thought AU was more of an UGA rival.
Before conference expansion, we played UT and UF every year. UT early in the year, and UF, UGA, and Bama at the end of the year.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:50 pm to BoCam2
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UF, UGA, and Bama at the end of the year.
The Amen Corner
Posted on 5/21/15 at 3:55 pm to BoCam2
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Before conference expansion, we played UT and UF every year. UT early in the year, and UF, UGA, and Bama at the end of the year.
Tennessee played Auburn a hell of a lot more frequently than they did Florida. Every year from 1956 through 1991. That is 35 straight meetings. The next time we played was the SEC CG in '97.
To contrast that...during the same period, UT played Florida 9 times and played Georgia 8.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 4:21 pm to undecided
Easy answer.
9 conference games.
9 conference games.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:04 pm to thirdlawson
If LSU had to play 9 conference games can you imagine the crying from Allevas eyes and the bleeding from Les Miles pussy?
Posted on 5/21/15 at 5:22 pm to undecided
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There's talk of the ACC eliminating divisions, would that work for the SEC?
Probably with 9 conference games. Each team could have five permanent opponents and rotate the other eight through the other four spots, playing each team twice every four years while maintaining their five most important rivalries. Auburn could keep Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee plus one more.
Not sure I know which five I'd want for LSU. Ole Miss and Alabama, probably. The SEC would probably insist on Aggy and maybe Arkie. That would leave one more spot for either Florida, MSU or Auburn I guess. I would have a hard time choosing between Florida and Auburn, but MSU is the one we have the most history with in terms of games played. Drop Arkie and keep Florida and MSU and I'd be happy.
Posted on 5/21/15 at 6:09 pm to undecided
LSU would rather play a big school like UGA than you every year if you don't think so poll them....
Posted on 5/21/15 at 6:26 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Probably with 9 conference games. Each team could have five permanent opponents and rotate the other eight through the other four spots, playing each team twice every four years while maintaining their five most important rivalries. Auburn could keep Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee plus one more.
I could live with this but 9 conference games has little appeal to me
Posted on 5/21/15 at 8:12 pm to undecided
A 16-team group system with three "continuous rivalries" would work.
Four groups (A, B, C, D) have four teams each (1, 2, 3, 4).
If you're Team 1 in Group A, and your out-of-group rivals are 2A, 3A, and 4A, your rotating 8-conference-game schedule could look like the following:
Year 1, Team 1A vs. 1B, 1C, 1D, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A.
Year 2, Team 1A vs. 1B, 1C, 1D, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 4A.
Year 3, Team 1A vs. 1B, 1C, 1D, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 1A.
You'd play every team in the conference every three years, three teams every year, and your rivals two out of every three years.
Four groups (A, B, C, D) have four teams each (1, 2, 3, 4).
If you're Team 1 in Group A, and your out-of-group rivals are 2A, 3A, and 4A, your rotating 8-conference-game schedule could look like the following:
Year 1, Team 1A vs. 1B, 1C, 1D, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A.
Year 2, Team 1A vs. 1B, 1C, 1D, 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, 4A.
Year 3, Team 1A vs. 1B, 1C, 1D, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 1A.
You'd play every team in the conference every three years, three teams every year, and your rivals two out of every three years.
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