re: [Dellenger] From speaking to league insiders, this is our best guess of the three rivals

So, if these are right, here is each teams Big 6+2 matchups:

Missouri-1
Arkansas-1
Texas A&M-2
Texas-1
Oklahoma-2
LSU-1
Ole Miss-1
Mississippi State-0
Alabama-3
Auburn-2
Vanderbilt-2
Tennessee-1
Kentucky-1
Georgia-2
Florida-2
South Carolina-2

Luckily though, you are going to play everyone in a 2 year cycle, which makes it a lot more palatable.

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Ok, so looking at it from a traditional perspective:

The "real SEC" (original 10 teams):

The Big Six (traditional powers);
Alabama- 3 "real SEC" teams
Auburn- 3 "real SEC" teams
Georgia- 3 "real SEC" teams
LSU- 2 "real SEC" teams and an add-in with geographic ties
Tennessee- 2 "real SEC" teams, and an add-in
Florida- 1 "real SEC" team, an add-in, and then a newcomer

The rest;
Ole Miss- 2 "real SEC" teams and an add in
Miss State- 2 "real SEC" teams and an add-in
Kentucky- 2 "real SEC" teams and an add-in
Vanderbilt- 2 "real SEC" teams and an add-in

The Add-ins (expansion teams):
Arkansas- 1 real SEC, 1 add in, 1 new guy
A&M- 2 real SEC, 1 new guy
South Carolina- 3 "real SEC" teams
Missouri- 1 real SEC, 1 add in, 1 new guy

The New Guys:
Oklahoma- 1 real SEC, 1 add in, 1 new guy
Texas- 2 add-ins, 1 new guy

I'm not surprised that Alabama and UGA get what they wanted (although you might argue they'd rather play SC than Kentucky). Sorta surprised that South Carolina gets a classic slate, and Florida gets "leftovers".
You could argue that Texas also got exactly what they wanted.

From a competitive balance, you might say A&M is in trouble. Both LSU and Texas are pretty dominant in their series, and Miss State has not been the cupcake they expected.

Bama should be playing MSU every year.

Not happy about not playing UGA every year but, at first glance, I can safely guarantee that this was reached using some sort of mathematical formula based upon some grading metric of which we are not privvy.

I may have it worked out in a couple of days but obviously they used long term rivalry plus some sort of power rating plus a distance metric.

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This isn’t a bad schedule for lsu, but I’d much rather have Florida instead of any of the other three. That’s also because i attended lsu from 05-09 and our biggest competition every year seemed to be Auburn and Florida.

These pairing aren’t terrible and appear to be pretty well balanced overall, it’s just not what I expected.