re: How does it happen that Bama plays so many more teams with a bye than anyone...

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But how does it happen?

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First the SEC office has to not have an SEC game on the schedule for these teams the week before Bama. From there these teams schedule their OOC games so their bye week falls the week before the Bama game.

It really is pretty simple. The question would be why do all these teams not have an SEC game scheduled the week before Bama? I haven't looked but is the number that don't the week before Bama proportionately different than other SEC teams? If so then why? If not then teams just want their bye before Bama and so be it.