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Who were your original cross-division annual opponents?
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:17 pm
I am losing my feel for how things were up until the early 2000s.
Arkansas used to play Tennessee and South Carolina annually. After around 2003 it became just South Carolina. Now it is just Mizzou.
Who were your teams original two cross-division permanents?
Arkansas used to play Tennessee and South Carolina annually. After around 2003 it became just South Carolina. Now it is just Mizzou.
Who were your teams original two cross-division permanents?
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 2:18 pm
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Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:19 pm to Numberwang
Alabama vs Vanderbilt 
Auburn vs UGA and flordia
Auburn vs UGA and flordia
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:24 pm to Numberwang
We had Kentucky and South Carolina.
South Carolina is actually one of our permanent rivals in basketball now so it's like we're back in the 90's again.
I don't understand why your permeant rival in football doesn't carry over for basketball. Like if we're playing Kentucky every year in football, shouldn't we play them twice in basketball? Same for Alabama. Why don't they play Tennessee twice? Just doesn't make any sense.
South Carolina is actually one of our permanent rivals in basketball now so it's like we're back in the 90's again.
I don't understand why your permeant rival in football doesn't carry over for basketball. Like if we're playing Kentucky every year in football, shouldn't we play them twice in basketball? Same for Alabama. Why don't they play Tennessee twice? Just doesn't make any sense.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:30 pm to Numberwang
LSU had Kentucky and Florida. It kind of blows my mind we ever had a time where we had TWO permanent opponents. I think the Pac 12 has a weird scheduling quirk where the California schools always play each other every year and rotate differently with the cross divisional games because of it. Also I'm pretty sure the Big 10 has no permanent cross divisional opponents except for Purdue and Indiana. So their schedule rotates slightly differently.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:31 pm to Numberwang
Auburn and LSU. SEC went to only 1 for some stupid reason after the 02 season.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:32 pm to Numberwang
Kentucky and Florida
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:32 pm to Korin
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SEC went to only 1 for some stupid reason after the 02 season.
Was that stupid reason so that more teams could play each other? Sort of like what we should do now by going to 9 games?
ETA: I like playing Florida every year FWIW
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:33 pm to Numberwang
Mississippi State and Arkansas
Mississippi State was our first conference win in the SEC.
Mississippi State was our first conference win in the SEC.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:36 pm to jlovel7
I like playing LSU too. Auburn was our most played opponent at the time though and is the closest SEC school to us yet we only play each other every 8 years now.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:41 pm to Korin
Florida was the first SEC school to agree to play in Auburn in 1912, many decades before other SEC schools would play in Auburn. Florida was also our most played school behind UGA and just as big of a rival as UGA up until 2002.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:42 pm to jlovel7
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Was that stupid reason so that more teams could play each other?
eta math wrong
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by going to 9 games
Problem with 9 is you are going to have a disproportionate amount of home games vs someone else. Schools already bitch about this with the few times it happens, now its going to be half the teams
This post was edited on 6/25/18 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 6/25/18 at 2:44 pm to Numberwang
South Carolina.
Big 12 did a better job of getting 2 opposite division opponents on the schedule each year. Every 3 year player got the play every team in conference at least once.
Big 12 did a better job of getting 2 opposite division opponents on the schedule each year. Every 3 year player got the play every team in conference at least once.
Posted on 6/25/18 at 3:07 pm to Numberwang
our 2nd one (besides AU) was ole miss
Posted on 6/25/18 at 3:19 pm to Farmer1906
It never made sense to me why they pitted the two Universities who are the farthest from each in the conference against each other.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 12:37 am to Carolina_Girl
There were some classic Florida v Auburn games back then, wish they played more often
Posted on 6/26/18 at 1:44 am to TigerMond84
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There were some classic Florida v Auburn games back then, wish they played more often
It's my favorite SEC series. I hate that it ended. Maybe one day Auburn will move to the East where we can reignite that series.
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:38 am to Carolina_Girl
Because they thought this would be a new great rivalry
Posted on 6/26/18 at 8:44 am to jb4
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Alabama vs Vanderbilt
Alabama played Vandy every year from 1926 to 2002
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