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re: Dormant SEC OOC Rivalries
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:30 pm to theGarnetWay
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:30 pm to theGarnetWay
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Non-SEC, OOC (past or present) FBS schools that SEC schools have played 20+ times
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No love for us and our ole ACC rivals?
out-of-conference schools PAST OR PRESENT.
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Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:42 pm to Rebellious
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My thoughts on the matter:
A lot of people don't realize it, but Miami was Florida's traditional rival, not FSU--for decades. Then, the FSU-Miami rivalry kind of replaced the UF-Miami rivalry in the 80's and left the Gators on the sidelines. It was only when UF got really good under Spurrier that the UF-FSU "rivalry" got underway, but there is not much tradition behind it.....and I, too, think UF is a little reluctant to put Miami back on the schedule for fear of losing (the same reason Ole Miss dropped Southern Miss many years ago).
As for Ole Miss and Memphis, that was traditionally the "warm-up" game for Ole Miss and then Memphis made it competitive and a lot of Ole Miss fans didn't like that and wanted the game cancelled, so it was. It makes sense to play it, though, because when the game is played in Memphis, there are more Ole Miss fans than Memphis fans in the stadium, so it is more like another home game without actually counting as one.
Ole Miss lost its traditional OOC rival when Arkansas joined the SEC--prior to that, Ole Miss and Arkansas had played on a regular basis. In fact, Ole Miss was just about the only team that ever played Arkansas in the regular season before they joined the SEC.
Vanderbilt should play either Duke or Tulane every year--a no-brainer and I don't understand why they don't.
The SEC added another conference game and no one else was playing 2 strong ooc programs annually. It was a lose/lose situation for us because Florida State was rolling as well. The state legislature probably would've taken action like they almost did back in the 50's.
Edit: It's also worth noting that Miami has declined several meetings in the past that would be in Tampa.
This post was edited on 2/11/14 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:47 pm to Korin
you guys dropped the Miami series a full 5 years prior to the SEC adopting an 8 game conference schedule
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:55 pm to WestCoastAg
The SEC went from 6 to 7 games in 88.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:57 pm to Korin
so playing 7 conference games was such a difficulty that you couldn't play Miami?
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:58 pm to WestCoastAg
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so playing 7 conference games was such a difficulty that you couldn't play Miami?
Gotta leave room for the charleston southerns and elons of the world
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:59 pm to WestCoastAg
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so playing 7 conference games was such a difficulty that you couldn't play Miami?
I'm not sure why you're singling us out.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:59 pm to Damn Good Dawg
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Gotta leave room for the charleston southerns and elons of the world
You missed a good opportunity for a Georgia Southern joke.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:00 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
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uh kansas-Mizzou.
Let's play Nebraska instead. Let kansas' football program continue to smolder.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:02 pm to Korin
quote:because your dumbass has tried to give a&m shite over not playing texas. if youre going to do that, maybe you should make sure your program hasn't actually straight up dropped a rivalry game before
I'm not sure why you're singling us out.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:03 pm to WestCoastAg
TAMU's ooc since not playing Texas has been garbage.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:03 pm to Korin
and now you are just throwing random flames around like an idiot
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:04 pm to WestCoastAg
And yet you're the one who started it.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:04 pm to Korin
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You missed a good opportunity for a Georgia Southern joke.
I thought about it but I wanted to stick with mocking the scheduling philosophy and not go balls to the wall with a GSU joke.
But now that it has been brought up it's a two-fer
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:05 pm to Damn Good Dawg
Well we aren't used to playing a GA program that knows how to win titles and big games.
HEYO
HEYO
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:06 pm to Korin
what is going on inside your head? who was the one who started posting random articles that only strengthened a&ms position? ill wait for your answer
This post was edited on 2/11/14 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:06 pm to Korin
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TAMU's ooc since not playing Texas has been garbage.
It's called switching conferences, idiot.
And I just got through telling you that some of the opponents it would make the most sense to play OOC have been blackballed into not playing us by texas.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:07 pm to WestCoastAg
Only after y'all talked about UF supposedly never playing anyone (again, despite having played more eos ranked teams than any other program).
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:07 pm to Korin
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you're the one who started it.
.......says the dude who posted this out of the damn blue:
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Texas/Texas A&M*
*It's ridiculous that the 2 flagship state schools in a football-crazy place like TX don't annually play each other right now.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 1:08 pm to Korin
you are literally too stupid to insult
This post was edited on 2/11/14 at 1:09 pm
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