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Maybe I've missed something, but I'd like to see a link to any such rules by the SEC or any other policy giving them the authority to dictate who Tennessee can and cannot play in OOC games. Does the conference have a position? Probably. Does that mean Tennessee can't make its own decision? I doubt it. And besides...why the hell would Tennessee want to play Oklahoma and Baylor in the same year anyway?

OOC games are now scheduled with 'guidance' from the front office now. The rule was changed very recently (this year's meeting IIRC) and as a way of strengthening OOC schedules because certain teams weren't scheduling decent OOC opponents. That aspect wouldn't really apply to us as our SoS is in the top 5 consistently but depending on how the rule is worded - if they were worried with various agreements with other conferences, tie-in openers/sponsors, tv agreements etc. it's possible they'd override. Possible doesn't mean did but the conference gave itself the ability to have say in OOC opponents, particularly in terms of P5 opponents.

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Posted by BamaGradinTn

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Posted on 12/27/14 at 1:58 am to Prof

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OOC games are now scheduled with 'guidance' from the front office now. The rule was changed very recently (this year's meeting IIRC) and as a way of strengthening OOC schedules because certain teams weren't scheduling decent OOC opponents.

The only rule that was changed was that schools had to schedule at least one Power 5 opponent. At least one. That means that as far as the SEC office is concerned, Tennessee absolutely could have scheduled Baylor and Oklahoma if they had wanted to. Some blogger on a Baylor website has connections in the SEC office that say otherwise. Right.