re: How To Re-Align the SEC

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OU
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas

LSU
Texas A&M
Miss State
Ole Miss

Bama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vandy

Kentucky
S Carolina
Georgia
Florida

With those division alot of the rivals are already covered.

Have 3 more random SEC games. 9 conference games and you would play every team once in 4 years.

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You can keep almost all your rivalries with one permanent opponent from each pod. Such as:

LSU - Florida, Alabama, Arkansas

And for logistical reasons you'd do better to have a complete rotation in six years rather than four. With nine conference games you have to manage everyone's need to have an average of 4.5 home SEC games per year and that actually gets pretty fricking complicated if you don't complete the home and away rotation instead of constantly recombining and balancing every year.

Balancing schedules and building the right amount of new rivalries (while maintaining the interest and history of the traditional SEC) is the hope. That actually becomes somewhat easier with six consistent opponents per team and the ability to rotate through the other nine in groups of three.