re: In Favor Of Scrapping Permanent Cross Division Games?

Hell the west needs to be busted up. A team outside the state of Alabama has won it once since 2008.

Maybe Auburn and Alabama need to just play each other for the state championship then play the best of the rest for the SEC Championship

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There is no other legitimate excuse.

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Given the importance of home field advantage in College football, the disadvantage of the unbalanced 5 home 4 away/4 home 5 away schedule for teams in a given year kill it for me.

Now if all teams were "forced" to play 1 conference game at a neutral site, then I'm OK with it.

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Yeah it is asinine this will be the first time we play A&M since they joined 7 years later we won’t go to College Station until 2024, 12 years later.

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I keep reading arguments like this and I wonder how old some of you are?

Prior to the 1992 expansion .... original programs within the conference went years without playing one another.

Nine games, or not, is not the issue. The issue is these interdivisional games .... all of which could be corrected by two simple moves.

Move Auburn to the East and drop the tsio so-called must be played rivalry game which has not been a good game since before some around here knew what football was/is.

BHam is very selective about which old rivalry games they choose to keep intact. That Tennessee game has become a gimme to Bama with no foreseeable change in the future. It could easily turn into a 20 year win streak for Bama and there is just something unwholesome about the thought of that quite honestly. It needs to take a break for the good of the conference.

No other so-called rivalry game has a history of streaks comparable to the Bama vs UTk game. That's indicative of a fabricated rivalry game built around a competitive series history between 1938-1970. But for the past 50 years it has been a boring ho hum game of long streaks, most of it Bama kicking UTk's arse.

(Bama is 33-15 against UTk since 1970)

Bama has run up two streaks of longer than 10 games against UTk TWICE during that span of time and the only time UTk made it respectable was during 96-06 span when Fulmer had it going on in Knoxville and managed a 7 game win streak against a down and out Bama program flailing under sanctions brought on by the backstabbing under handed Phat Phil and his cronies the Hyam brothers. That and Phat Phil cheating his hypocritical arse off while pointing the finger at Bama.

Helluva karma kickback UTk is suffering through right now and no wonder Bama fans are enjoying laying the wood to the Vololols these days. Hell, were I a Bama fan I would want to keep mudholing UTk every year until the apocalypse too.

But it is time for that forced rivalry game to end, move Auburn to the East and make them Bama's permanent opponent and move Mizzou to the West and make them SC's permanent opponent and then institute a 9 game conference schedule (once the playoff expands to 8 teams) and be done with this bullshite.

Honestly, it would make the Bama-UTk rivalry more fun when they played and it would give Vol Nation time to catch their breath.

#Nb4SCvsClemson but let me remind anyone who is about to go there this. SC vs Clemson is not a conference game and it is not adversely affecting the entire conference. Additionally, SC vs Clemson is an instate rivalry game which Bama vs UT is not. Auburn vs Bama IS an instate rivalry game and it should be kept intact. A&M should be playing UTa every year just like SC plays Clemson, UGA plays GaTech, UF plays FSU and Kentucky plays Louisville.

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If you don’t support a 9 game SEC schedule, you are scared. There is no other legitimate excuse. You’re a pussy.

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You think teams are scared of playing 0-8 Arkansas, 1-7 Ole Miss, 3-5 Auburn, 2-6 Tennessee, or 3-5 Vandy?
Remember. Half of the teams in conference are below average.

The idea that scheduling more average teams boosts anything is assinine.

Instead of adding the random SEC team, go out and control your own scheduling and put notre dame, clemson, Oregon, Oklahoma, UCLA, Texas, and FSU on your schedule.

The only conference game that matters is the SECCG.

Big 3 east teams vs big 3 west will always move the needle.

This will never go away and thinking otherwise is foolish.

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The next closest is LSU Florida, but LSU just complains about it all the time.

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I didn't want to say it but you are 100% correct

The funny thing is, if the SEC scrapped permanent x-div games, and increased conference games to 9 per season, it's not like AU would never play UGA again, or that Bama would never play Tenn again, but that's how fans of these teams seem to act.

Would the world really end if Bama stopped playing Tenn every year, and only played them every other year?

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I didn't want to say it but you are 100% correct

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I’m ashamed to admit it. But some LSU writers were simply embarrassing about it.

Billy Gomila wrote about it monthly for a while.

It’s been a top 3 series for LSU and changing it would be a bad move.


Once Tennessee is worth half a damn, this will all make sense.

The current format potentially hurts chances for AUB, UGA, UF, and LSU but nobody else.

The SEC is the only conference that can get 2 into the CFBP, and increasing the number of SEC games will make that more difficult. Unless there is a scheduling overhaul for the entire P5 I have to disagree with increasing the number of SEC games.

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I'm more in favor of scraping all gimme games outside of the P5 for more mandated inter conference games. The top of the SEC could reliably beat the likes of Washington, ND, Michigan, and Penn State and bolster our chances instead of beating each other and letting one of them in.

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Once Tennessee is worth half a damn, this will all make sense.

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No, it still won't make sense. There is no logical or historical precedent for forcing two teams to play annually to preserve another program's misguided sense of tradition.

I love the Florida series, but it only exists to accommodate Alabama and that is dumb.