re: I know I will get blasted by lsu fans but?

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A majority of posters here have LSU ties so you'll hear their perspective more often

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This never gets taken into account unfortunately

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I think most LSU fans like the Florida game. The point of all this was to even it out a bit. There has been much said about Bama playing Mizzou, Kentucky, and the rest of the bottom feeders on a consistent basis. And everybody knows that outside of Florida, Georgia rarely plays any of the SEC heavyweights. I definately want Florida on the schedule every year because its an exciting game. However it would be nice to see more scheduling parity throughout the conference.

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It is stupid shite like this that pisses me off about LSU fans. It is not on a consistent basis. You are just making up shite. It is two seasons and many in the media had Mizzou contending in the East going into last season. Mizzou needed big SEC home games to energize fans in their first year in the SEC and no program is bigger right now than Bama. I'm sorry the SEC couldn't predict the dumpster fire their season would become.

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I have seen other forums, and most Florida fans seem to like the game.

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Thank you. I have not seen a single UF thread or response complaining about this game. Our fans need to deal with it. It's a great game every year and most likely has national implications. isn't that the overall purpose of playing? Bama still has to play us, aTm, and Auburn every year albeit AU hasn't been up to par the past couple of years but don't forget, they beat Bama just 3 years ago in T-Town. This schedule bitching is giving the good fans a bad rep. Most of us enjoy playing against the quality foes every year.

what you say is true

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do not understand why lsu fans get so worked up about sec scheduling? It may suck to be paired with Florida...

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Guess what, if TAM hadn't lost to Florida last year, they would have won the SEC West. Bama got Georgia taken off their schedule this year, and both LSU and TAM got Florida last year. You’re an idiot if you don't see the gigantic scheduling advantage Bama enjoyed last year in winning the SEC West.

And the SEC made sure Bama got a gigantic advantage against LSU this year too by switching the Georgia game from Bama to LSU. Making LSU play Florida isn't enough, they had to give Georgia to LSU this year too.

Furthermore, Florida has Georgia as its toughest competition to contend with in the East, while LSU has Bama and now TAM in the West. Florida wouldn't mind rotating LSU on their schedule, but they don't want to go to a nine conference game schedule because they would have to drop an OOC pansy.

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ASAP

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really, really needs to be banned

To answer the question though. The schedules are only unfair in comparison to Bama because right now UT sucks, UF is top 10 every year, Bama's alternating east opponent is going through Mizzou and UK while LSU's is USCe and UGA. The schedules work, just the last season and this next one we got unlucky. If 2 years from now LSU is still playing UGA/USCe and Bama is still playing UK/Mizzou, then I'll bitch, but until then I'll just take this opportunity to get to go to a game in Athens. When your alternating east opponent is easy, you gotta take advantage that year and win almost all your other games. Bama has done that.

There is so much wrong in your post, I'm not sure where to begin...but I'll try.

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Bama got Georgia taken off their schedule this year, and both LSU and TAM got Florida last year.

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If you truly believe that Bama and/or the REC has the type of power to dictate schedules, first off you are a conspiracy theory nut. Secondly, you must not have been watching SEC football before last year. Up until 2010, Bama played more teams that had bye week the week before than any other team (and there wasn't really even a close second). 2010 was the straw that finally broke the camels back, but that had been going on for years. So if Bama/REC has that type of power, why did they wait until last year to yield it?

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Florida wouldn't mind rotating LSU on their schedule, but they don't want to go to a nine conference game schedule because they would have to drop an OOC pansy.

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Ummm...I think you have something backwards here. Going to a 9 game schedule is being discussed as a work around for the permanent cross-divisional games. If we did away with them, then we could stay at 8 conference games. So that statement doesn't make any sense. If they wanted to rotate LSU off of their schedule, regardless if they dod or did not want to go to a nine game schedule (which they don't), they would with LSU in wanting to remove the permanent games. But they don't want to rotate them off, and they have not sided with LSU on the subject.

This year's schedule is the only one that I can remember in the last 10 years where Bama has had a destinct scheduling advantage over LSU going into the season. As has been stated many times on the Rant, before last season, there were a lot of people that not only picked Mizzou to compete for the East, but their were some that even picked them to win it. Heck, Mizzou was the school that was supposed to come into the SEC and compete immediately, not aTm. No one knew for sure that Mizzou was going to crap the bed last year.

LSU fans are the only ones that are constantly whining about the cross-divisional games. And this year is the first year than Bama has had a distinct schedule advantage over LSU going into the season. One year doesn't make a trend, so man up and quit whining about it.

I think we play a pretty comparable schedule.

LSU fans are the only ones that are constantly whining about the cross-divisional games. And this year is the first year than Bama has had a distinct schedule advantage over LSU going into the season. One year doesn't make a trend, so man up and quit whining about it.



When was the last time you played Georgia or Florida????????? It hasnt just been a year!