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

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Not bad, but Tennessee getting Kentucky and Vandy as permanent opponents isn't too equitable. Not great for Vol season ticket holders either.

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Despite what Saban said, “equity” of permanent opponents barely matters if the rotation is right:

For example,
Alabama
Auburn
LSU
Tennessee
OU/Texas
Texas A&M/Arkansas
Florida/Georgia
Miss State/Ole Miss
South Carolina/Missouri
Kentucky/Vanderbilt

Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky
Vanderbilt
LSU/Auburn
Texas/Oklahoma
Arkansas/Texas A&M
Georgia/Florida
Ole Miss/Miss State
Missouri/South Carolina

Even if Alabama has 3 big 6 + 2 permanent opponents and UT only has 1. If they appropriately rotate the remaining schools, the difference in the total schedule is negligible.

The only focus of the permanent opponents should be preserving rivalries for all teams. Dellenger’s list doesn’t do that and leaves us with asinine “rivalries” like Florida-Oklahoma, Miss State-Texas A&M, Kentucky-UGA. The list sucks.