re: I'm late to the party on SEC scheduling leaks...

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Florida and Tennessee not being in a pod together seems odd to me. I know they aren’t rivals like UGA/UF, and Bama/Tennessee, but I remember it being a pretty heated rivalry growing up.

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That's never been a rivalry in SEC history. It just had a really intense 90s thing going because of the forced divisions and Spurrier/Fulmer having 2 of the top teams in the conference.

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Or four location based matchups/pods to occur ever year:

TAM, Mizzou, OU, UT
LSU, Ark, OM, MsSt
AL, Aub, Tenn, Vandy
Fla, UGA, SoCar, UK

If you don't go purely geographically someone is going to get fricked, it is as simple as that.

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The issue is, you're not going to see A&M, Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri dumped into a pod by themselves. That's Big 12 Lite, and those schools spent a lot of money to come to the SEC. So in addition to the rotating games, everyone is given someone permanent that isn't Big 12.

Texas gets Arkansas, which isn't a big SEC deal, but revives a huge SWC game. Oklahoma gets Fla, which IS a big SEC draw. A&M gets LSU, another big SEC prize.
Mizzou gets Vanderbilt