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re: How To Re-Align the SEC
Posted on 4/19/22 at 7:19 am to ChromaticTide
Posted on 4/19/22 at 7:19 am to ChromaticTide
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How To Re-Align the SECPosted on 4/18/22 at 3:41 pm
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With Texas, and Oklahoma set to join the conference, the SEC is about to be ridiculously stacked - The SEC West in particular.
In order to offset this, I came up with a way for the SEC to become more dynamic, and fair.
Basically we do away with East/West.
The conference is divided up into group 1 and group 2.
The prior season's final conference rankings are used to divide the conference.
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 in group 1
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 in group 2.
This would evenly distribute the conference, and allow for more inter-conference matchups instead of playing the same teams every year at the same time.
OPs idea is great.
Gets rid of the East cake walk. Evens out competition. Make sure the conference season a playoff style schedule.....
Should do this
Alternative is Oklahoma to East TexASS to the west.....idea here is to beef up competition in east and dilutecompetition in the west....
How To Re-Align the SECPosted on 4/18/22 at 3:41 pm
up vote10down vote18
With Texas, and Oklahoma set to join the conference, the SEC is about to be ridiculously stacked - The SEC West in particular.
In order to offset this, I came up with a way for the SEC to become more dynamic, and fair.
Basically we do away with East/West.
The conference is divided up into group 1 and group 2.
The prior season's final conference rankings are used to divide the conference.
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 in group 1
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 in group 2.
This would evenly distribute the conference, and allow for more inter-conference matchups instead of playing the same teams every year at the same time.
OPs idea is great.
Gets rid of the East cake walk. Evens out competition. Make sure the conference season a playoff style schedule.....
Should do this
Alternative is Oklahoma to East TexASS to the west.....idea here is to beef up competition in east and dilutecompetition in the west....
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Posted on 4/19/22 at 7:46 am to Scoob
Again, since these divisions are always paired, it’s almost irrelevant what they look like individually.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 7:57 am to ChromaticTide
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group 1: Alabama Ole Miss Arkansas Tennessee South Carolina LSU Vanderbilt
group 2: Georgia Kentucky Texas A&M Miss. St. Missouri Auburn Florida
Yep nailed it
Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:13 am to FayetteNAM
This 6-3 should be it. Hands down the best option. END. OF. THREAD. 
This post was edited on 4/19/22 at 8:15 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:25 am to MosesRAB93
Posted on 4/19/22 at 8:52 am to MosesRAB93
Would be pretty good, wish it would be mandatory for all schools to pick up a permanent P5 opponent. Unfortunately the obvious choices for AU (GA Tech, Clemson, F$U) are already taken.
Here's a shot at assigning permanent P5 opponents to those SEC schools currently without them, loosely based on the historic number of games played since 1950 (shown in parentheses):
Bama: Penn State (15)
Arky: Baylor (42)
AU: Miami (9)
LSU: Notre Dame (12)
MSU: NC State (4)
Mizzou: Kansas (62)
Ole Kiff: Houston (18)
UTee: UCLA (15)
TAMU: Nebraska (15)
Vandy: Wake Forest (16)
MSU was the most difficult to come up with a logical match, since so many of their historic P5 opponents are already claimed by other SEC schools. However, if the Big12 includes Memphis in their rumored next round of expansion, they would be a logical choice (or pair Memphis with Ole Miss and assign Houston to MSU).
Here's a shot at assigning permanent P5 opponents to those SEC schools currently without them, loosely based on the historic number of games played since 1950 (shown in parentheses):
Bama: Penn State (15)
Arky: Baylor (42)
AU: Miami (9)
LSU: Notre Dame (12)
MSU: NC State (4)
Mizzou: Kansas (62)
Ole Kiff: Houston (18)
UTee: UCLA (15)
TAMU: Nebraska (15)
Vandy: Wake Forest (16)
MSU was the most difficult to come up with a logical match, since so many of their historic P5 opponents are already claimed by other SEC schools. However, if the Big12 includes Memphis in their rumored next round of expansion, they would be a logical choice (or pair Memphis with Ole Miss and assign Houston to MSU).
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:01 am to ChromaticTide
Send Alabama and Auburn east. Move Vandy west. It’s simple
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:27 am to 1801
12 teams sounds good - should look like this:
no divisions, schedule whoever you want to
no divisions, schedule whoever you want to
This post was edited on 4/19/22 at 9:30 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:27 am to Buster Womb
Why Vandy instead of MU west?
Doubt they put Vandy and Vandy Jr(Texas) in same devision.
Doubt they put Vandy and Vandy Jr(Texas) in same devision.
This post was edited on 4/19/22 at 9:28 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 9:36 am to TU Rob
Not just Bama and tenn game. Most of u forget the sec will NEVER…EVER not play auburn Georgia. They rearranged the friggin schedule to accommodate these two not playing their biggest rivals back to back.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 10:49 am to Grievous Angel
quote:You do realize that without 12 teams there was no SEC championship game...right ? That was the reason for Arkansas and USC. The SEC championship game is what put the SEC on top. You stupid people who just post stupid things amaze me....
re: How To Re-Align the SECPosted on 4/18/22 at 4:52 pm to 1801
quote:
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Louisiana State
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Why stop there?
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Alabama
Auburn
Louisiana State
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
I mean, really, in the grand scheme of things, what would be lost?
This post was edited on 4/19/22 at 10:51 am
Posted on 4/19/22 at 11:03 am to FearlessFreep
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Arky: Baylor (42)
I think Arkansas would pick up any old SWC person if they would play the SouthWest Classic instead of aTm.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 12:30 pm to southernboisb
quote:
Georgia (GT) Florida (FSU) SC (Clemson) Kentucky (Louisville) These are the 11th game for these schools leaving 1 spot open for anybody while the other 12 get 2 spots.
So don’t play every year them if you want 2 open spots? ?????.
Texas A&M gave up the Tx game after decades of playing so it’s not out of the realm of reality.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 12:44 pm to TU Rob
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T, and will add in Texas vs A&M again annually.
Why does everyone think Texas wants to play Bugger U every year? They are not our rivals. They are not our equals, they are not mentally stable.
poor aggies
Posted on 4/19/22 at 12:53 pm to AgSGT
quote:
I don’t hate it but you have to find a way to mix this approach while preserving rivalries
aggy has no rival.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 12:57 pm to ChromaticTide
East
Bama barn Florida uga tenn vandy Kent usce
West
The rest
or autonomy
Bama barn Florida uga tenn vandy Kent usce
West
The rest
or autonomy
Posted on 4/19/22 at 4:04 pm to boweswi05
& you wouldn't put SC & Kent. with UGA & Fl. & call it "competitive balance" either.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 4:07 pm to molsusports
Nice. My plan has 1 perm rival in the other 3 pods to keep rivalries intact.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 4:10 pm to FayetteNAM
Have UGA drop SC & try again.
Posted on 4/19/22 at 4:26 pm to Donkeypunch
Or you could not do 10 conf. games.
HOWEVER, I DO AGREE that an even # prevents the extra H/A issue.
HOWEVER, I DO AGREE that an even # prevents the extra H/A issue.
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