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What do you think about going to 9 SEC games per season?
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:31 pm
Saw Gus come out and talk about how he wants to go to playing 9 SEC games per season.
Thinking about it, I am all for it.
Thinking about it, I am all for it.
This post was edited on 7/20/18 at 4:49 pm
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Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:32 pm to AuburnDeep
We wouldn't be adding games to the schedule, we'd just replace a non-conference game with a conference game.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:33 pm to AuburnDeep
Would love it, although I think total games would remain the same, teams would just play one less OOC game.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:33 pm to AuburnDeep
All 4 it get rid of some of these crappy div.9 games
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:36 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Ah okay I was under the assumption we would play instead of a bye week. I see now. Makes sense
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:36 pm to wartiger2004
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All 4 it get rid of some of these crappy div.9 games
I would be a lot of teams would replace their "good" OOC team with a additional SEC game. Since it does not appear to matter on schedule for the SEC.,I could see some teams still playing 3 bad OOC teams and a additional SEC team
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:37 pm to AuburnDeep
It’d be great. Hopefully it’d be 6-2-1 so we can rotate cross divisional opponents like we used to.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:38 pm to LanierSpots
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I would be a lot of teams would replace their "good" OOC team with a additional SEC game. Since it does not appear to matter on schedule for the SEC.,I could see some teams still playing 3 bad OOC teams and a additional SEC team
Yea, this is my fear. Perfect world we'd have a game like Washington next year and add like a Florida to the schedule. That would be awesome. Would be a brutal arse schedule, but as fans we'd enjoy the matchups. In reality, we'd just replace Washington with a Florida and keep the crap games.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:40 pm to LanierSpots
quote:Isnt there a new NCAA rule that you have to play at least one P5 team each year? Yes, the botttom rung teams would end up on some schedules but not everyone could schedule Iowa state.
3 bad OOC
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:44 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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We wouldn't be adding games to the schedule, we'd just replace a non-conference game with a conference game.
Replacing the Samford’s or the Clemson’s? If replacing the Clemson’s, sure,, let’s go 9 games. If replacing Samford, the schedule is already hard enough so no thanks.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:45 pm to AuburnDeep
9 SEC games needs to happen, and the SEC is way behind on this. Don't give a shite about chick fil a kickoffs and playing Clemson and Washington. Give us another SEC game instead.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:50 pm to jangalang
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Replacing the Samford’s or the Clemson’s? If replacing the Clemson’s, sure,, let’s go 9 games. If replacing Samford, the schedule is already hard enough so no thanks.
I agree to a degree. I'd actually rather have home and homes with teams like Washington and stuff. If the option is scheduling a bunch of ACC teams though as our "big" p5 game, then yea lets do 9 conference games. If it replaces the stupid neutral site kickoff games, I'm fine with it.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:52 pm to Rhino5
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9 SEC games needs to happen, and the SEC is way behind on this. Don't give a shite about chick fil a kickoffs and playing Clemson and Washington. Give us another SEC game instead.
The problem with that is as soon as that was done, everyone would be bitching that we dont play any OOC teams. Personally, I could care less if our 9th team is a SEC game or a "good" OOC team. I dont want 4 shitty games per year and I dont want 10 strong teams to play during the season. We are about where we need to be on competition. 9 solid teams, no matter the break down, is enough.
I enjoy us playing the OOC games. Shows where we are compared to other conferences
Posted on 7/20/18 at 4:53 pm to LanierSpots
That's my opinion as well. I wish we'd do more home and homes though. I understand the revenue side of it, but I would really love to be able to travel to some cool venues to see Auburn play outside of bowl games, which generally end up being the same 3-4 bowls.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 5:04 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
I’m for it. Miss going to Gainesville and Knoxville
Posted on 7/20/18 at 5:18 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
I honestly think the rest of the country wants the SEC to play 9 plus a power 5 OOC just so that we will cannibalize ourselves more. The UCF push showed me that the rest of the nation no longer cares about SOS (which dominated the BCS talk). Meanwhile, all Clemson did was give us another loss. Our later playoff push proves we didn’t need Clemson. It helped having a respectable loss but was it really worth it?
This post was edited on 7/20/18 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 7/20/18 at 6:55 pm to jangalang
I like it. It will never happen IMO.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:40 pm to AuburnDeep
The hardest part of doing this is convincing the teams that play an out of conference rival. (Georgia, Florida, South Carolina)
To play a 9 game schedule plus the out of conference rival puts them in tough spot if they ever want to do the out of conference kickoff games.
To play a 9 game schedule plus the out of conference rival puts them in tough spot if they ever want to do the out of conference kickoff games.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:45 pm to Rhino5
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Don't give a shite about chick fil a kickoffs
They average over 5 million per team in payout.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:50 pm to AUlock54
I want Florida back on the schedule.
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