SEC Going With 9 Game Conference Schedule Next Year

Kentucky will be our third rival.

Best guess.

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Two permanents are good enough for any of the SEC teams.

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No permanent rivals is the only way to make it fair. Every team would face every other 3 out of 5 seasons. Nobody gets Vanderbilt, or Miss St, or both. There are 4 or 5 teams in the league that are perennial bottom feeders when it comes to talent. My opinion is either get rid of them, or let everybody play them the same amount. I'm sure it won't happen, but it's the most fair system.

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Turrible, no good, really bad idea that would further remove tradition out of the college game.

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I understand the counter-argument. And it's fine if tradition is what you want most. If you want an equal opportunity to win championships, as I do, then you should prefer to make fair schedules the new tradition.

Some fans deceive themselves into believing their team can continuously navigate more difficult competition with no impact on their rate of success. Patently false and even moreso in the NIL era. Winning teams and winning players will get more deals. Difficulty of schedule has a huge impact on long term success. Georgia already has one strike by continuing to play GT every year; not because GT is a great team, but because it damages our scheduling flexibility, costs us a home game every two years, and now limits us to two cupcakes per year. We're traditioning the football program into hard times.

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I understand the counter-argument. And it's fine if tradition is what you want most. If you want an equal opportunity to win championships, as I do, then you should prefer to make fair schedules the new tradition.

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Come on man...the suits have done enough to try to ruin the great sport of college football. At least let us keep the annual trip to Jacksonville and keep the Deep Souths Oldest Rivalry an annual tradition so I can pretend it's a shell of what it used to be.

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No permanent rivals is the only way to make it fair. Every team would face every other 3 out of 5 seasons. Nobody gets Vanderbilt, or Miss St, or both. There are 4 or 5 teams in the league that are perennial bottom feeders when it comes to talent.

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I think we need more road games against Oklahoma and Texas A&M. They are both on my bucket list. All Georgia fans dream of going there. Norman has a water tower that says OU on it and College Station has a KFC/Taco Bell combo restaurant all in the same building. College football is all about the experiences.

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No permanent rivals is the only way to make it fair.

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gross

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Every team would face every other 3 out of 5 seasons. Nobody gets Vanderbilt, or Miss St, or both. There are 4 or 5 teams in the league that are perennial bottom feeders when it comes to talent.

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math is math. A 9 game system with 3 permanent opponents means there are 12 teams every season that you could potentially play at random. So you play 6 of them in year 1. In year 2 you play those same 6 but reverse the location. year 3 you get the other 6, then in year 4 you get those 6 again but flipped location. In a 4 year cycle you woudl have played literally every other team in the league, both at hoem and on the road. It works out perfectly.

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I understand the counter-argument. And it's fine if tradition is what you want most

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Do you not realize that IS what most of us want? If people wanted to see the absolute pinnacle of football athleticism with the best in the world competing with the utmost parity, we'd watch the NFL. Waht draws us to college IS the tradition, among dozens of other things that make (or made) it superior to the pros.

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If you want an equal opportunity to win championships, as I do, then you should prefer to make fair schedules the new tradition

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If we aren't playing UF and AU every single year, then IDGAF what our chances at a title are, becuase that isn't Georgia football. Not to mention that when we inevitably go to fricking 28 teams or whatever in the postseason why will it really matter if we have an extra loss or two on the season

Your 0.0001% opinion is noted.

It would be hilarious that if right when Tennessee fans think that they don't have to play Georgia and Tennessee every year anymore, they have to play Georgia and Tennessee again every year lol.

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Which one do we drop?

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if we had any smarts at all we'd drop every single OOC game we have currently scheduled other than tech. It makes literally zero logical rational sense at all to try to make our already ever-increasingly difficult schedule even harder.

GT will be considered our 1 power 5 that we have to play