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re: I favor a 10-game SEC schedule. 5 permanent opponents and rotate the other 5 each year.

Posted on 6/3/23 at 10:42 pm to
Posted by molsusports
Member since Jul 2004
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Posted on 6/3/23 at 10:42 pm to
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ain’t saying they are all perfect , but this way makes it work.. LSU-UF, AU- LSU, and UF- UT. Are pretty close in length of rivalries and UF-UT is generally considered a bigger rivalry across the conference than UF- LSU



That's just not true IMO. It's wrong IMO with respect to all three rivalries.

LSU Florida has been played 69 times and essentially every year since 1953.

LSU-Auburn became a rivalry in the early 90s (92). They have 59 games in their series. The Tubbs vs Saban and Miles games were great but not representative of the normal importance of the series.

I enjoy the Auburn game but they are no higher than the fourth (at best) most important historical opponent for LSU behind Florida, Alabama, and OM. Nothing personal RE: Arkansas and A&M because they are fine but they can still get fricked rather than substitute for any of the top three.

For me as a fan of LSU in the late 90s beating Spurrier's Florida juggernaut was the event that made my fandom so deep, Florida will always be my number one. Alabama is important when they are great. OM is traditional because of the 50s and 60s but Florida is what I care about above every other.

Auburn has Georgia and Alabama for their clear top two. Probably Florida is their #3 for older fans and maybe LSU for the fans who became fans in the early 00s.

The Florida Tennessee series has been played only 52 times and only consistently since 1990. It was especially interesting when Manning couldn't beat Spurrier but the series just isn't a top priority for any Florida or Tennessee fans you talk to about big rivals.
This post was edited on 6/3/23 at 10:47 pm
Posted by molsusports
Member since Jul 2004
36164 posts
Posted on 6/3/23 at 10:54 pm to
Anyway, supposing the financial incentive was there for ten conference games I really like the five : three pod solution.

Here that would be:

Fives
Alabama : Tennessee
Auburn : Georgia
LSU : Florida
MSU : Kentucky
OM : Vanderbilt

Threes
Texas : Oklahoma
Arkansas : Missouri
USC : A&M

To explain by example how this would work

Alabama schedule:
Year1&2: Auburn, LSU, MSU, OM, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas, USC
Year 3&4: Auburn, LSU, MSU, OM, Tennessee, Florida, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Missouri, A&M

Texas schedule:
Year 1&2: Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, USC, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, OM, MSU
Year 3&4: Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, USC, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt

The fives are playing one of the "threes" pods and half of the rotating opposite fives to get ten games

The threes play all of the threes every year and one of the fives to get ten games. The whole rotation (home & away against all 15 conference opponents) takes four years maximum for every team

The one program that is arguably getting screwed by this is South Carolina. They aren't playing their #1 in Georgia every year. You could replace Vanderbilt in the five east pod with USC if that was consensus (since Vanderbilt has the smaller fan support, the negative in that case being the loss of the annual Tennessee vs Vanderbilt game)
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