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re: Auburn vs Georgia moving earlier in season starting in 2020
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:12 am to tylerdurden24
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:12 am to tylerdurden24
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Auburn pussing out because Bama and UGA are both good and it’s hard on them (which I suppose has never been an issue since WW2 until now).
UGA pussing out arguably even more by even entertaining this change. Only positive I can see is that it moves an otherwise challenging opponent to earlier in the season so as to free up the schedule later on for a postseason run. Still, this fricks with longstanding tradition for the sake of doing Auburn a favor.
Because playing GT is the same as playing Bama.
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Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:14 am to Korin
Where do I make that comparison?
Posted on 2/20/19 at 8:25 am to Korin
It's as if fans of SEC teams don't understand how scheduling works.
When expansion occurred uga was moved to a home/home rotation to allow for the expansion changes...the SEC power brokers wanted to make sure Mizzou got bama year 1. Rightfully so we needed Mizzou to make the break from the Big 12 clean and Mizzou deserved the bama home game as a short term incentive. Neither uga nor Auburn had much say in that change...they both accepted it because like bama and UTk they had lobbied to keep the permanent cross divisional opponent successfully when every other member school would have voted to end those games and allow the East to play the West schools on a more regular basis.
Since that decision TDSOR has created a unique situation on Auburn's schedule where we play 2 of the top 4/5 programs in the SEC with the potential of playing one of those a 2nd time a week later each November. The kicker in even years those first 2 games are road games. It's bad for our home season ticket sales...the November ticket slate is laughable in those seasons. No other school has anything like that as an issue.
If you view it simplistically it may be shocking uga would entertain this option, but neither school is afraid to play the other school. Fans trolling on this subject is laughable. I suspect in the big scheme of things uga would rather not play Auburn in November either, the potential to turn around and play that game again as a title game would be something anyone would avoid if they could make it happen.
The SEC East November schedule is pretty bad also and moving TDSOR is the best way to solve that issue. Think of the TV benefit of bama/LSU and bama/Auburn the last 10 years...name a single November east game that has created that type of ROI for the networks.
In the end this decision will be an SEC decision driven by TV dollars and uga/Auburn will only offer input.
When expansion occurred uga was moved to a home/home rotation to allow for the expansion changes...the SEC power brokers wanted to make sure Mizzou got bama year 1. Rightfully so we needed Mizzou to make the break from the Big 12 clean and Mizzou deserved the bama home game as a short term incentive. Neither uga nor Auburn had much say in that change...they both accepted it because like bama and UTk they had lobbied to keep the permanent cross divisional opponent successfully when every other member school would have voted to end those games and allow the East to play the West schools on a more regular basis.
Since that decision TDSOR has created a unique situation on Auburn's schedule where we play 2 of the top 4/5 programs in the SEC with the potential of playing one of those a 2nd time a week later each November. The kicker in even years those first 2 games are road games. It's bad for our home season ticket sales...the November ticket slate is laughable in those seasons. No other school has anything like that as an issue.
If you view it simplistically it may be shocking uga would entertain this option, but neither school is afraid to play the other school. Fans trolling on this subject is laughable. I suspect in the big scheme of things uga would rather not play Auburn in November either, the potential to turn around and play that game again as a title game would be something anyone would avoid if they could make it happen.
The SEC East November schedule is pretty bad also and moving TDSOR is the best way to solve that issue. Think of the TV benefit of bama/LSU and bama/Auburn the last 10 years...name a single November east game that has created that type of ROI for the networks.
In the end this decision will be an SEC decision driven by TV dollars and uga/Auburn will only offer input.
This post was edited on 2/20/19 at 8:28 am
Posted on 2/20/19 at 11:53 am to Korin
Alabama is a conference game and GT is a non conference game dumb arse. Fairly sure Auburn is trying to schedule a non conference cupcake before Bama.
Posted on 2/20/19 at 9:16 pm to Korin
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Because playing GT is the same as playing Bama
Well since 2008
UGA is 8-3 against the WDE and undefeated at home
While 7-3 against Tech with the 3 losses coming in the classic city.
So for UGA little brother west is the much easier match up.
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