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Is Alabama-Tennessee really the only reason Auburn isn't going to the east?

Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:09 pm
Posted by ForeverGator
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:09 pm
Just makes no sense with Auburn in the west. Never has. The cross over rivalries have gotten a bit stale as of late.

I mean, comon, no one cares about the Alabama-Tennessee rivalry except for people over the age of 50 that are fans of those teams. Times have changed and we deserve to have more diversity in our schedule. Playing the same teams year in and year out gets old.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:10 pm to
No it is not. The Iron Bowl is the reason.

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Posted by CNB
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:11 pm to
How is it the iron bowl?

People care about the iron bowl
Posted by AUCE05
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:11 pm to
Agree. UT needs to win a game for it to actually be a rivalry. We need to continue our streak against UF.
Posted by bamawriter
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:11 pm to
Lock Bama-UT in (and I assume AU-UGA) and let the other 10 teams rotate both cross-division games. They do it in the Pac 12 and Big 10 and no one complains.
Posted by TT9
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:13 pm to
So you'd like to play Auburn every year?
Posted by BowlJackson
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:14 pm to
Yeah I wish we could beat Florida's arse more often too.
Posted by TT9
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:16 pm to
When was the last time they beat you guys?

Posted by FourThreeForty
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:16 pm to
TSIO is such an underrated rustler.


Keeps a lot of great cross divisional matchups from happening lol
Posted by LSU GrandDad
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:17 pm to
quote:

Times have changed and we deserve to have more diversity in our schedule. Playing the same teams year in and year out gets old.


really? you mean a fan, not LSU, wants to enlarge the scheduling? everybody said we wanted to do it because we were chicken.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:17 pm to
quote:

How is it the iron bowl?

People care about the iron bowl


Because when expansion happened they wanted to keep the Iron Bowl at the end of the season. With Auburn in the East it would mean they could then possibly meet again in the title game, which would be the following game, essentially watering down the Iron Bowl. The SEC doesn't want that
Posted by lsufball19
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:17 pm to
So Alabama would play the same schedule every year if they were locked into both UT and Auburn from the east. Unless we move to a 9 game conference schedule, that won't work.
Posted by ForeverGator
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:18 pm to
Auburn would be a piece of cake for Florida if they played every year. Auburn gets lucky and has a good team when they face Florida once every 7 years.
Posted by bamawriter
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:20 pm to
We should go to a nine game schedule, but everyone other than Bama shot it down.
Posted by mistaken4193
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:20 pm to
Why not Alabama and Auburn both to the East and Send Missouri and Vanderbuilt to the west??
Posted by BowlJackson
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:22 pm to
quote:

When was the last time they beat you guys?


2002
Posted by AUCE05
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:22 pm to
Overall record disagrees

ETA:

Don't worry. UT/UF's daddy is coming back east. Only a matter of time.
This post was edited on 5/26/17 at 6:24 pm
Posted by BigOrangeBri
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:25 pm to
quote:

We should go to a nine game schedule, but everyone other than Bama shot it down.


Dave Hart and Tennessee were for it
Posted by TT9
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:25 pm to
Yeesh, Auburn play Florida during the Meyer era?
Posted by Prof
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:26 pm to
You can't put 4 of the big 6 in the same division. That's really all there is to it.
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