re: Will Alabama continue to fight against the 9 game schedule?

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Then what is your solution?

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To conference scheduling in general?

8 game schedule, keep 2 or 3 permanent rival games and rotate the rest.

But adding more games to the conference will just make the conference weaker. That's just a matter of math because all conference games equal out to .500 records. So as a conference if you played only conference games, your record no matter what will be .500. It's when the teams go out and beat the crap out of other conferences that you get records above .500, and the more conference games you have, the less you can do that.

You're just adding 8 extra losses minimum to the conferences overall record. And that will have an effect on things when it comes to rankings. Especially when they are kind of stupid and pay attention to record before everything else.

9 games is bad.