re: What is the reason that Most SEC schools don't want a 9 game conference schedule?

Risk vs Reward. 8 game schedule is not going to keep SEC out of Playoff Spots. But 9 games might knock a 3rd SEC team out.

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Makes no sense. TV deal would pay out more for 8 additional SEC games.

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Well ESPN doesn’t agree

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I want 10 conference games.

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That's only been done once in NCAAF history. And Bama swept

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Texas Longhorns Football Home Games

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Jesus. That reads like a bunch of road markers on the Oregon Trail.

But let’s tell people playing the hardest schedules in all of college football that they are scared to play an additional game

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So weak. These teams and fanbases are so fragile that they’d rather have an extra win against a cupcake than a possible loss to a legitimate team?

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You have no right to talk about a fragile team when Horns Down sends your players into melt down mode and the other team ends up with a 15 yard penalty!

I have seen so many other teams in the SEC take that kind ribbing and not give it a bit of attention. The first that comes to mind is the Gator chomp, opposing teams do it all the time to Fl, and to their credit, their team doesn't cry and complain.

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You should have to play 9 conference opponents. And one P5 OOC opponent. It should be mandated.

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I'm confused why a Texas fan would want to take their record from 6-6 to 5-7?

Live and learn

ACC and SEC were basically the same conference originally. Hence they have strong inter conference rivals like ...

Auburn = Taters
Florida = Free Shoes U + Miami
Georgia = Georgia Tech + Clemson
Kentucky = was Indiana, now Louisville
LSU = historically Tulane, now they have scheduled OOC
Missouri = historical kansas
SC = Taters + Tar Heels
UT = original ACC schools
Vanderbilt = Wake, Service Academies, and other ACC schools

Since lots of history (which matters here) and lots of gate receipts coupled with donor dollars, going to 9 games means the probable end of the revenue streams they generate.

B1G - B12 - B8 - SWC - PAC have no similar games across their teams. I would add that many lesser games played are tied to old SoCon schools and helps their bottom line too.

The 9 game schedule would help Georgia’s and to a lesser extent Florida’s home season ticket (FSU sucks less than Tech).

Now we have 4SEC home, Tech and 3 SEC Away, FL in JAX. On even years we have 3 SEC Home, Tech Home, 4 SEC Away and JAX…for 4 home games out of 9 played. Just to get to 6 home games, 2 of the other 3 have to be home games.

With the 3/6 Model, GA and Florida get 4SEC Home, 4 SEC AWAY, JAX in 9 games. On the years you get Tech/FSU away you can schedule a P5 home game and the next year you get P5 Away, Tech/FSU at home.and one directional at home for 6 home games.

Every year GA and FL get 6 home games. 5 of which are P5, JAX, a P5 Road game and 4 SEC Road games. That so much better than our current home ticket package.

And it makes scheduling P5 OOC because you can do it in back to back years.

I'm not against more conference games. I'd love if we got to play only a conference schedule and just played 15 games.

But the logic I saw that got the idea squashed at the SEC meetings was that the SEC has the most watched product in college football with a TV contract that is already agreed upon. So they won't add the extra game and give the networks an extra 8 games without being compensated for it. The current contract will either have to be re-done, or they will add a 9th game when the new TV deal is done and negotiate the price from there.

I get it that the SEC doesn't want to give away its product for free, but from a fan perspective, it kinda sucks.