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re: It's time to reorganize the East and West Divisions
Posted on 1/21/21 at 10:45 am to GobyGator
Posted on 1/21/21 at 10:45 am to GobyGator
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With the pod system every team will have played every other team in 3 years. Which allows a 3 year starter to see every sec team at least once.
I liked the pod system personally. The great thing about this year is that any Alabama kid who played this season and last season is only missing Vandy from their list of teams played.
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Posted on 1/21/21 at 10:51 am to drexyl
I don't think you could go to a nine game conference schedule and not keep the divisions. You will have one team screaming bloody murder if they lose a tiebreaker to go to the conference championship and they played four home games and the other team played five home games. If you keep divisions then you can make it where all the teams from the East play 4 home games in even numbered years and 5 home games in odd numbered years. If you're going to bag divisions you either need to keep 8 conference games or go to 10.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:01 am to GobyGator
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Yep, add a North Carolina and a Virginia and the pods would be nicely divided north(UT, Candy, UK, VT) south(Bama, AU, MSU, Ole Miss) east (UF, UGA, USC, NCstate) west(aTm, LSU, Ark, Mozzy).
The problem is now that ESPN has an ACC network it's highly doubtful that they are going to let the SEC raid the ACC for two of the schools that give a shite about football.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:03 am to LSUgrad88
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I don't think you could go to a nine game conference schedule and not keep the divisions. You will have one team screaming bloody murder if they lose a tiebreaker to go to the conference championship and they played four home games and the other team played five home games. If you keep divisions then you can make it where all the teams from the East play 4 home games in even numbered years and 5 home games in odd numbered years. If you're going to bag divisions you either need to keep 8 conference games or go to 10.
It would seldom get that technical, to have to sacrifice the 9 conference games. The Big 12 play 9 conference games and they get the last 2 teams right with no divisions getting in the way. It's not like it doesn't work or we haven't seen it before. We see this scenario every year.
How nice to have seen TAMU vs BAMA II in the SECCG. A real playoff game to boot. Florida lost to TAMU and threw up on themselves vs LSU and they have to be propped up by the playoff committee in the rankings to make it look like the right thing. Pitiful. TAMU eliminated Florida if we use the same rules we use for division winners. As stated, divisions are tits on a bull.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:06 am to Inadvertent Whistle
frick that. We didn't reorganize when MSU, OM, and Arkansas were shite. We're not doing it now either. The pendulum will swing back at some point.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:08 am to Inadvertent Whistle
Auburn East, Mizzou west.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:13 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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frick that. We didn't reorganize when MSU, OM, and Arkansas were shite. We're not doing it now either. The pendulum will swing back at some point.
Doubtful considering how much more money on average West schools put into football compared to East schools.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:15 am to Pastor Mike
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The only change that makes sense to me is to put Auburn in the East and put Mizzoo in the West
It is fun watching people finally come to the realization of what we've been saying for years now
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:15 am to bamameister
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It would seldom get that technical,
The Big 12 is really not a good comparison with the SEC, because with only ten teams, their nine game schedule means everybody plays everybody, so that element of unfairness is eliminated. There is no inequity in scheduling from that aspect. I mean the SEC always has the built in unfairness of each teams permanent opponents; along with the fact in certain years someone draws easier opponents than others, and then you throw in the added factor of an unequal amount of home games, it arguably gets very arbitrary. I'm personally not a fan of divisions, but if you want nine conference games, I think you need to keep them.
This post was edited on 1/21/21 at 11:17 am
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:21 am to LSUgrad88
quote:It can be done with an 8 game schedule--you just have 3 permanent opponents, instead of five.
I don't think you could go to a nine game conference schedule and not keep the divisions. You will have one team screaming bloody murder if they lose a tiebreaker to go to the conference championship and they played four home games and the other team played five home games. If you keep divisions then you can make it where all the teams from the East play 4 home games in even numbered years and 5 home games in odd numbered years. If you're going to bag divisions you either need to keep 8 conference games or go to 10.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:24 am to bamameister
It really is. Two permanent. Rotate the rest. Top two in Atlanta
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:29 am to Inadvertent Whistle
quote:a SWC team to have a say about jack shite in the SEC.
It's not fair for the
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:39 am to Inadvertent Whistle
Auburn is on a downhill ride and they soon be bottom feeders in the west.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:44 am to Inadvertent Whistle
I’m ready to go to 10 game SEC schedule, ditch divisions, and let the top two teams play in the SECCG. This year was a lot more fun without everyone playing 2-3 (sometimes 4) directional schools. Downside is overall records for SEC teams will suffer and you may have less ranked teams but so be it.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 11:52 am to elposter
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I’m ready to go to 10 game SEC schedule, ditch divisions, and let the top two teams play in the SECCG.
100% agree. It's time; ditch the crappy non-conference games, the divisions and do it the right way.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 12:19 pm to LSUgrad88
I'm expecting the divisions to disappear in the next few years
I expect they will still have a couple of non-conference games as a warmup to division play
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100% agree. It's time; ditch the crappy non-conference games, the divisions and do it the right way.
I expect they will still have a couple of non-conference games as a warmup to division play
This post was edited on 1/21/21 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 1/21/21 at 12:57 pm to KickPuncher
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How about kick bama out of the SEC? Would that appease all of you sec west cucks?
Makes sense. Move Bama to the AFC South in place of Jacksonville. Add Texas or Oklahoma to the SEC West.
Posted on 1/21/21 at 12:59 pm to Ag Zwin
He is a dip shite. Has UGA ever been number 1 in the new rankings?
Posted on 1/21/21 at 2:05 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
I'm just thinking purely geographically. It brings a little parity to the divisions too
Posted on 1/22/21 at 2:51 pm to Inadvertent Whistle
I don’t see where it really matters. Unless you’re Alabama you have to beat the best team in the conference to win the championship anyways.
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