re: What was the original thinking putting Mizzou in the East?

I meant to say Georgia doesn't look at South Carolina as a rival.

We've played a lot of games with them, probably more than anyone besides Tech and some original SEC members, but our record isn't as good as those teams against Georgia (and Tech used to be great, so I imagine their head to head against Georgia is better than ours).

But on our end, I think beating Georgia is the best single win that can happen in a season. Clemson's up there, but personally I don't pay attention to them until we play them. Georgia and the other East members I follow all season and watch their games to see what they have.

I think what this rivalry needs (it has the geography), is to rip Georgia's heart out once. Ruin their season.

Thing is we usually play so early that we never seem to have a game like that. Most of the time games like that come along late in the season.

They lose to us, there's plenty of time to play what ifs and look at schedules and say this team beats that = go to Atlanta.

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there should be one or two permanent games each year.

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Now that the Big XII has received permission to play a CG even without having 12 teams or divisions, I think the SEC should ask for the same, do away with the divisional format and play a 3-5 schedule with three permanent opponents and the other ten teams rotating through the five other spots. That way we all get to play each other at least twice every four years and the most important annual rivalries can continue. Let the top two teams meet in the CG.

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If West Virginia played LSU in Baton Rouge, I'd pay to have a couch shipped there. Just in case.

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Well, they did it less than a decade ago

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Now that the Big XII has received permission to play a CG even without having 12 teams or divisions, I think the SEC should ask for the same

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Not saying you're wrong (although I'm not sure I like the idea), but I don't think we should be using the Big XII in any kind of example as how to run a conference

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I do not remember LSU losing either game

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They did not lose either game, no

Ambivalent about that system.

I think most of the East really values playing permanent games with Georgia and Florida for recruiting purposes.

If you say 3 permanent rivals, just as a guess:

Georgia: Florida, Auburn, Tennessee?
Tennessee: Florida, Georgia, Alabama
Florida: LSU, Georgia, *?

* = recruiting wise Tennessee does nothing for Florida. Tennessee wants to play Florida, but I'm not sure that game means that much to Florida.

Same deal with Georgia as regards Tennessee. They just don't need it, but it has been played a long time and it is a neighboring state.

How do you guys think it breaks up? I have a feeling that some fan bases might be upset with the way the system potentially could evolve.

South Carolina would definitely want to play Florida and Georgia, but playing us doesn't help them recruiting at all really (though Florida and more often Georgia sign players from our state on occasion).

If you only got one more permanent rival, I don't even know who we would want besides those two(and even if we wanted them, not sure they would want a permanent game).

Our luck we wind up with A&M and Arkansas somehow. Yay for the interstate system.

Missouri is just too far away, and we very, very rarely sign anyone from there.

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We tossed AU-UT with the first expansion. That game was played every year since 1956.

Then we later tossed AU-Florida. AU is the closest school to Florida geographically. Still one of the most played games in SEC.

I'm not against AU to the east.

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Great. Let's move Auburn and Alabama East and we'll take Vandy with us West for a close travel partner.

Problem solved.

Anything North of the Florida Parishes is the North to me so I guess that includes all of Missouri

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