re: How To Re-Align the SEC

You're kind on thinking the same I am in that "some don't care about DSOR" while I don't care about their game(s). My issue is that they think it's okay to keep their game but not mine.


Which then goes to the "keep 3/rotate the rest" format which I've also discussed on here.

Careful what you want. Curious, why didn’t you use the last score in the football series?

Reading through the thread a small point I saw one person make was the historical rivalry between Kentucky and Tennessee (and Kentucky and Georgia).

That might not be possible to preserve (like the MSU Alabama series) but I could see it working at the same time you allowed Auburn to play Alabama, Georgia, and Florida every year. At the same time you could allow Alabama to keep their annual Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU games. And Florida could keep Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU as annual opponents.

It would just be a variation of the pods where you switched Auburn and Kentucky. The fixed out of pod opponents are in parentheses

Florida (Tennessee, LSU, Texas)
Georgia (Kentucky, A&M, Oklahoma)
Auburn (Alabama, MSU, Arkansas)
USC (Vanderbilt, OM, MU)

Alabama (Auburn, LSU, Oklahoma)
Tennessee (Florida, A&M, Arkansas)
Kentucky (Georgia, MSU, MU)
Vanderbilt (USC, OM, Texas)

LSU (Florida, Alabama, Arkansas)
A&M (Georgia, Tennessee, Texas)
OM (USC, VY, OU)
MSU (Auburn, Kentucky, MU)

Oklahoma (OM, Georgia, Alabama)
Texas (A&M, Florida, VY)
Arkansas (LSU, Auburn, Tennessee)
MU (MSU, USC, Kentucky)

These make geographic sense but the biggest appeal was how many of the Auburn vs Arkansas, Tennessee vs Arkansas, MSU vs KY, OM vs VY, Florida vs Tennessee, Florida vs LSU, and Alabama vs LSU games are preserved.

The weakness? I don't think any programs other than possibly Arkansas are excited about OU, Missouri, and Texas replacing their traditional rivalry games. That die has been cast though. All of the solutions mean some loved games (like Auburn vs LSU) are going to be played less frequently.

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There'll be New 8-team East/West divisions, with AL & AU in the East and MO, OK & TX in the West. There'll be 9 SEC games; 7 intra-div + 2 of 8 cross-div rotating yearly (playing all 8 once within 4 years).

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Meh. I can live with this. Even if I cannot stand the thought of letting Texas and Oklahoma into tSEC, at least we get regional alignments straightened out.

Either Oklahoma to east and TexASS to the west

Or

What the OP suggested a reshuffle each year based on ranking to form equitable divisions....

If we go to 2 8 team divisions…
How many traditional rivalries are not intact??
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

Arkansas
LSU
Miss St
Ole Miss
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas Am

I really can’t think of any.. left out
DSOR
WLOCP
IB
TSIO
EGG
LSU-OLE MISS
Vandy-Ut
UF-UT
UT-UK
Tex Am- Texas
Red River
.. I may have missed some, but I think they all stay intact. The biggest issue is only seeing a cross Div team once every 4 years.
That’s why I think doing away from divisions is best not only do you double that and get home and home, but you also get the best 2 teams in the SECCG.

Just seems like that would be a LOADED division.

We already have years where LSU plays all three of those schools with UF being our Permanent Foe and then when UGA rotates on, the stretch in those years is BRUTAL.

How ever we have won multiple national titles plays all three, but not in the regular season

It's pretty likely both SEC division winners get in the CFP final-4 rankings. 1 or 2 more SEC teams could get in an expanded CFP.

Geographically: Ala./Aub./UGA/UF & Tn./Vandy/SC/Ky. make better sense.

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wanna keep lsu as a rival

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Absolutely this game cannot be killed.