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Would you rather your team have Auburn or Alabama as a permanent opponent?
Posted on 3/2/24 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 3/2/24 at 3:49 pm
There's no great reason to think that Freeze won't do well at Auburn. He beat prime Nick Saban 2 years in a row with an SEC poor, which seriously is one of the greatest SEC coaching accomplishments of all time. Freeze has also woken up all of the boosters. Auburn already had the best infrastructure for paying players for years, and now paying players is legal.
Alabama meanwhile hires someone who looks and feels like Bryan Harsin. Yeah Deboer coached in a national championship game. But so did Gus Malzhan and Gene Chizik.
Personally I'm thinking it's a good time for Auburn to come off the schedule as one of Georgia's permanent opponents. I'd much rather my team have to deal with Whole Foods Harsin than Hugh Freeze for the foreseeable future.
Alabama meanwhile hires someone who looks and feels like Bryan Harsin. Yeah Deboer coached in a national championship game. But so did Gus Malzhan and Gene Chizik.
Personally I'm thinking it's a good time for Auburn to come off the schedule as one of Georgia's permanent opponents. I'd much rather my team have to deal with Whole Foods Harsin than Hugh Freeze for the foreseeable future.
This post was edited on 3/2/24 at 3:52 pm
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Posted on 3/2/24 at 3:52 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
OP spittin troof up in herr.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 3:53 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
I’d rather have Bama. AU offers little competition
Posted on 3/2/24 at 4:06 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
There should be NO permanent rivalries. All teams should rotate through each other. Most fair way.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 4:15 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
As long as we get our usual easy win over Georgia, who cares.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 4:16 pm to Opry
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There should be NO permanent rivalries. All teams should rotate through each other. Most fair way.
Tenn/Bama
Bama/Aub
UGA/UF
UGA/Aub
Ole Miss/Miss St
Tenn/Vandy
These games are as old as the SEC and should NEVER go away.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 4:17 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Auburn. Much better tailgating/game day experience.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 4:28 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Just a glance at the last 10-12 years, if I were a UGA fan I’d want AU To remain a permanent opponent over Bama as well. 
Posted on 3/2/24 at 4:58 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Have both. Damn Big 12 teams coming into the conference and messing up SEC traditions.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 5:49 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Auburn is a rival. I still want UGA to keep playing them.
Bama isn't. Playing them a couple of times every 5 years going forward is fine.
Bama isn't. Playing them a couple of times every 5 years going forward is fine.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 5:55 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
A 9-game football schedule is coming. The SEC will do a 6 + 3 schedule if we do not grow the conference again in 2025.
Bama - LSU, Tenn, & Aub
Aub - Georgia, Bama, Vandy
Bama - LSU, Tenn, & Aub
Aub - Georgia, Bama, Vandy
Posted on 3/2/24 at 6:26 pm to G&P
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Bama - LSU, Tenn, & Aub
Probably not gonna happen.
Bama- State, UT, Aub is more likely. One team getting THREE of the Big 6 just isn't likely. The "Saban Bowl" thing is dead. CBS and LSU played that up past the point of being ridiculous.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 6:50 pm to 404 Error
quote:... and we've expanded to 16 teams now.quote:
There should be NO permanent rivalries. All teams should rotate through each other. Most fair way.
Tenn/Bama
Bama/Aub
UGA/UF
UGA/Aub
Ole Miss/Miss St
Tenn/Vandy
These games are as old as the SEC and should NEVER go away.
If you want traditional rivalries, don't keep expanding. It's a simple concept. If the SEC feels adding Texas and Oklahoma is more important than maintaining the Egg Bowl, then the Iron Bowl should be on the chopping block too.
To me, it's not a valid conference if you don't get a home/away with every opponent, during the stretch of a 4 year career.
You want to keep permanent opponents, then form a conference alliance with another conference.
Posted on 3/2/24 at 7:06 pm to Scoob
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Tenn/Bama
Bama/Aub
UGA/UF
UGA/Aub
Ole Miss/Miss St
Tenn/Vandy
These games are as old as the SEC and should NEVER go away.
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If you want traditional rivalries, don't keep expanding
I'm sorry that LSU does not have the tradition of a major conference rivalry.
We're not willing to lose ours because you don't have one.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 12:22 am to 404 Error
quote:I think we've seen what traditions mean in today's world... nothing.
I'm sorry that LSU does not have the tradition of a major conference rivalry.
We're not willing to lose ours because you don't have one.
The best college rivalry I have ever watched was the Oklahoma-Nebraska game. That's gone.
You're not going to lose your rivalries, they just won't be annual. They should be, but we've gone and made the conference too big to continue that. Now, in a few years we might see it revived, if the conference splits into East/West, tossing LSU and the Miss schools into the West with Texas, OU, A&M, Arkansas and Missouri. That way, you get Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Vandy, Kentucky and SC in the East.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:30 am to Violent Hip Swivel
I hope Alabama and LSU continue to play. It's my favorite game of the year.
That SEC CG still hurts I see? 
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Alabama meanwhile hires someone who looks and feels like Bryan Harsin.
That SEC CG still hurts I see?
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:32 am to DawginSC
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Bama isn't. Playing them a couple of times every 5 years going forward is fine.
In an odd way, I tend to think it makes the matchup more special.
I would like for Bama and Auburn to mix up the every year Iron Bowl as well.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:32 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Stop being a pussy! We're Georgia. Anybody-Anytime!
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:34 am to Violent Hip Swivel
I think we can all agree on one thing. Sex outside of the family will always be a permanent opponent of both fan bases.
Posted on 3/3/24 at 7:39 am to Violent Hip Swivel
OP, that's a great question but the answer is Auburn "and its not even close."
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