No point in having a conference if you don't play the other teams in it.

Going to 9 games is basically mandatory with 14 teams.

Yes it will make it harder to go undefeated, but with the new playoff going undefeated isn't required. The SEC Champ will get into the playoff even with a loss, or 2.

Truth be told, the conference shouldn't have expanded past 12 IMO.

This post was edited on 3/21/14 at 1:38 pm

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Posted by jb4

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Posted on 3/21/14 at 1:42 pm to IAmReality

you can't have it both ways. THe larger the conferences get, the less the teams will play. If you want a round robin, stick with 10. 12 is probably the max to feel the conference unity. Once you get to 14 or 16, you aren't playing everybody.

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Posted by molsusports

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Posted on 3/21/14 at 1:54 pm to IAmReality

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No point in having a conference if you don't play the other teams in it.

if this is the goal then go to the roommate switch proposal. that would preserve the UGA/Auburn/Bama/UT games and rotate everyone through a complete home and away rotation against every team in the conference at least once in a four year period.

9 game schedule just muddies things up even more with an uneven number of games played home/away in conference, a lot of variability with respect to the difficulty of your draw, and costs your lower to middle tier teams some wins they need to get bowl eligible. On top of that it will further reduce (just as going from around 6 conference games to 8 did in 1992) the number of quality OOC teams played by pretty much every team in the conference and reduce the number of home games played per year for everyone.

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