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re: Are Aub and GA okay with losing each other?
Posted on 7/22/21 at 7:55 pm to twk
Posted on 7/22/21 at 7:55 pm to twk
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twk
Since the Big XII got the rule changed, there is no need to jump through all these hoops. Just do it like we do in basketball: give each team 3 opponents that they play every year, then rotate the other 12, six in one year, six in the next. The two teams with the best record meet in the conference championship game. You play a home and home with every team in the league over the course of four years. You don't have divisional imbalance, where a 12-0 division champ meets an 8-4 divisional champ. You don't confuse fans by switching up who you are competing with for the divisional title every year.
& you DON'T do that because that now requires creating tie-breakers for sorting schools due to the # of common opponents that divisions/pods instantly break by having everybody playing the same teams.
Say teams A, B, & C all go 5-3.
A & B have 2 common opponents. A & C have 1 common opponent. B & C don't even play each other.
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Posted on 7/22/21 at 7:57 pm to jvilletiger25
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So much fear in this one.
The reason they hired their two best coaches were because of Auburn. Hell the school hired private investigators in the 50s on Auburn. Their talking point is we obsess about them while they constantly talk about us
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:13 pm to holdem Tiger
Brother va brother. Keep the rivalry.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:14 pm to holdem Tiger
Reading through this thread makes me long for the days when the SEC had 12 teams, and was a regional conference for the South. With all due respect, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri are not a part of the south.
DSOR is one of those games that I watch every year. Many years, it has bearing on where LSU finishes. It’s an important game for college football. Nihilo sanctum estne?
DSOR is one of those games that I watch every year. Many years, it has bearing on where LSU finishes. It’s an important game for college football. Nihilo sanctum estne?
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:16 pm to southernboisb
Tie breakers are a factor even with divisional play. That’s not a reason for adopting this absurdly complex pod system
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:22 pm to coachcrisp
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t'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.
THIS ^
Actually, this is the only thing I have seen past two days that makes sense
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:36 pm to windsor1977
Also, there are other games worth thinking about.
We all know about UGA/AUB, ALA/AUB, ALA/TENN, and UGA/FLA (and some others, such as Ole Miss and Miss State). But I'm sure that Texas would be in favor of having permanent rivalries too, since they'd have Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Arkansas as old historic rivalries.
Putting Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC West and moving Alabama and Auburn to the SEC East would solve nearly all of these problems, and maintain almost all of the old rivalries. No pods, but still two divisions.
We all know about UGA/AUB, ALA/AUB, ALA/TENN, and UGA/FLA (and some others, such as Ole Miss and Miss State). But I'm sure that Texas would be in favor of having permanent rivalries too, since they'd have Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Arkansas as old historic rivalries.
Putting Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC West and moving Alabama and Auburn to the SEC East would solve nearly all of these problems, and maintain almost all of the old rivalries. No pods, but still two divisions.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:38 pm to twk
Divisions
each teams play each other
Right there, you've sorted 8 teams based solely on common opponents & NO need of a tie-breaker.
each teams play each other
Right there, you've sorted 8 teams based solely on common opponents & NO need of a tie-breaker.
This post was edited on 7/22/21 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:40 pm to UGADawg1988
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UGADawg1988
Are Aub and GA okay with losing each other?
Also, there are other games worth thinking about.
We all know about UGA/AUB, ALA/AUB, ALA/TENN, and UGA/FLA (and some others, such as Ole Miss and Miss State). But I'm sure that Texas would be in favor of having permanent rivalries too, since they'd have Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Arkansas as old historic rivalries.
Putting Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC West and moving Alabama and Auburn to the SEC East would solve nearly all of these problems, and maintain almost all of the old rivalries. No pods, but still two divisions.
There's a downside to this:
Games 1-7 = division opponents
Games 8-9 = 2 c/d opponents
You'ld go through the opposite side ONCE in 4 years.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 8:59 am to RD Dawg
That is why I say NO to losing them as rivalry games.
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