Hypothetical B1G/SEC annual football challenge

We’re about to get rid of all bullshite G5/FCS games anyways I think.

I encourage an annual Texas vs. USC game.

IMO, the problem with college football is if you lose one or two games you’re most likely to be left out of any national championship discussion. The playoffs will ease that a bit.

But what the fans want and what the coaches want are probably two different things. The fans want entertainment, the coaches want some warmup games to see where they are or later in the season cupcakes for rest down the stretch.

I think adding tough regular season games added to the already tough schedule plus the grind of playoffs may be a deterrent to something like this happening.

But there’s a good chance these matchups could happen in a playoff anyway.


Basketball is different, but we already have the big12 challenge and that conference has been as good or better than the big2000, or however many teams they have.

I was checking future SEC schedules, and I see that Ole Miss and Southern Cal play a home and home in 2025 and 2026.

So all the good teams will play the other good teams, and all the crappy teams will play the other crappy teams.

No thanks.

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Kentucky vs. Indiana

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This used to be an annual thing, and should be again.

We had the Illinois game annually but the Illini ran away because they were tired of losing that game.

Turns out though that missing the exposure in St Louis hurt them more than they thought, so thankfully the game has been rescheduled 8 times in the next 10 years (now it's a home and home). If kU doesn't want to schedule a permanent rivalry week game going forward I would be ok with the Illinois game filling that spot because beating Arky has gotten kinda boring Illinois would probably be a better game.