re: Are Aub and GA okay with losing each other?

The SEC will not break up the DSOR.

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We had played Auburn the same # of times we played Georgia when they dumped our rivalry in 2003.

While I doubt it'll be AU/UGA, there's a pretty good chance change this big will likely destroy some classic rivalries.

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Honestly I don't think it will. I think it opens up a door to scheduling that both saves the 3-4 games every school wants on a regular basis while opening up the other 5-6 to play the rest of the league more often.

This rivalry must be protected at all costs. It's literally the oldest rivalry in the entire South. You can't let a game that's been played since 1892 fall apart.

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And that is assuming that we go to pods

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Texas fan

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We had played Auburn the same # of times we played Georgia when they dumped our rivalry in 2003.

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That seems impossible considering Georgia and Auburn have played every year both teams have fielded a team since 1892. Your nouveau riche program didn't even start up until 1906.

I would hope they have some sort of stipulation to preserve that rivalry. We need to keep most traditions and not turn into some generic conference.

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We had played Auburn the same # of times we played Georgia when they dumped our rivalry in 2003.

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It still hurts we lost that rivalry. There were some incredible games between the two of us.

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read his post again.

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Ha. My bad I misread it.

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Their loss of an annual game is the only huge problem I saw with the SEC network suggestion for pods.

Can y’all be convinced to vote yes?

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It's not necessary. What about this?

West: Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M

East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt

Increase to at least a 9 SEC game schedule (preferably 11 games and 1 OCC game).
This would take care of all the important rivalry games and have ALL teams playing at least 1 out of every 2 years.

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If the powers that be running this shite show cannot resolve how to keep the AU-UGA game played annually, then this initiative needs a very public and painful execution.

The Charter members will tolerate change, but losing that game is a bridge too far.

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Gozer: As an LSU fan, I actually support the charter members keeping the games that are historic SEC rival games. Those games are 1) Auburn/UGA, 2)Bama/Auburn, 3) Florida/UGA and 4) TENN/Bama.

I think the LSU and Florida game has emerged as one of the best games and most meaningful games in the SEC over the last 20 years or so, lets be honest, much much more than Bama/TENN, but it doesn't have the length of history that game does. So what we are really talking about is those 4 games above.


So what is a solution.

You bring in OU and Texas you have 16 teams.

So if the traditional rival games are going to kept in tact,

That would mean for example

Auburn has UGA and Bama as permanent
Bama has Auburn and TENN as Permanent

So that means using the Auburn and Bama situation, you have 3 teams accounted so you have 13 others to use to fit into lets say a 9 game schedule. Lets call them with respect to Bama and Auburn teams 1 to 13.

So if you do the numbers, it would take 8 years to rotate through the other 13 teams, assuming again 9 game schedule.


If you go to 3 permanent teams, which is like a POD but it keeps the traditional rival games.

Auburn would play UGA, Bama and lets say for the sake of argument Miss. State for 3 Permanents. To that accounts for 4 teams and you have 12 others to account for.

Under that scenario, you play teams 1 through 6 in years 1 and 2, plus your 3 permanents for 9 league games.

In years 3 and 4, you rotate off the 6 teams that you played in years 1 and 2, and you add the other 6 teams.

So in a 4 year period, everyone has played everyone and you maintain those 4 traditional rival games.

What do you think Gozer? Could that work with Auburn fans?