re: Mullen proposes 9 game SEC schedule with 4 home and away with 1 neutral site game

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Can you explain what this means? I'm not following.

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Sorry for the delay. And apologies to both you and NocaHomas Teepee for being grumpy. I haven't slept in ages (don't ask) and I'm drifting now.

The scenario is a 16 team conference with 4 divisions of 4 and 9-game schedules, each team playing 3 divisional games and 6 cross-divisional games (2 from each of other 3 divisions).

In that scenario, any 2 teams from the same division would have an average of 5 common conference games (common opponents + each other). Some may have a little more, some a little less. Five is just the avg. 5 games out of 9 gets you a rounded 56%. So the schedules of two divisional teams would be, on average, 56% balanced.

Two cross-divisional teams would have an avg of 5.5 common games (common opponents + each other wherever applicable). Their schedules are 61% balanced on avg.

In a division-less 16-member conference with 9-game schedules, two teams would have an avg of 5.4 common games out of 9 for 60% balance.

With 2 divisions, permanent of impermanent, 2 divisional teams would have an avg of just under 7.3 common games out of 9 for 81%