re: How did the 12 SEC teams agree on these East & West permanent rivals for over a decade?

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Auburn didn’t schedule Alabama for41 years.

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I’m assuming you are young. The Alabama governor and State legislature had to force University ofAlabama to agree to resumption of the game in 1947. It was not a question of Auburn (officially Alabama Polytechnic Institute at the time) not scheduling Alabama.