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re: Let’s see your (I know it will be hard for this board) NON TROLL divisional re-alignment
Posted on 10/27/21 at 9:48 am to starkvingrad
Posted on 10/27/21 at 9:48 am to starkvingrad
How will pods work out come SEC championship time though? Sec Championship Semi Final and Final?
I say just keep it simple, send Texas to the East and Oklahoma to the west. Its stupid geographically but it works.
I say just keep it simple, send Texas to the East and Oklahoma to the west. Its stupid geographically but it works.
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Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:00 am to OldRebYeller
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How will pods work out come SEC championship time though?
The pods rotate. So you end up with two divisions on a three year cycle.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:02 am to MoonMoon2020
quote:Not really.
Similar to what is being proposed in the pod system. You and your 3 permanent opponents would constitute a 4 team pod for scheduling purposes.
The next piece is to figure out who goes to the championship game without divisions. A lot of ways to structure that. You could even have two 4 team pods within each division.
Pods are the building blocks for divisions which would alternate every year. With Pods A, B, C, and D, in year one your divisions would be A/B and C/D. The next year, it would be A/C and B/D. The third year it would be A/D and B/C. The winners of the divisions would meet for the title game. In a no divisions, no pods set up, you just take the teams with the 2 best records.
Because four team pods would not be big enough to include the five teams that play the sacred cow permanent rivalry games, the only way the SEC would do pods is with each team having one permanent rival from the other three pods. So, you'd have six teams that you play every year, and you'd work your way through through the other 9 teams soley through the pod rotation. In effect, a pod system like this means that you only have one less permanent opponent than we have right now with the division system.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:06 am to SEC. 593
quote:No. Pods are the building blocks for rotating divisions. You still would have divisional play and might end up with a championship game where the winner of division 1 (pods A and B, in a given year) is undefeated, while the winner of divisions 2 (pods C and D) has two losses.quote:Ah, so a Pod?
Each teams has 3 permanent opponents, and you rotate the other 12
Pods require you and your pod mates to play the same opponents, whereas, in the no divisions, no pods scenario, every team would have a unique set of permanent opponents. A&M might have Texas, LSU, and Arkansas, while Texas might have A&M, OU, and Arkansas, while Arkansas has Texas, OU, and Missouri...
This post was edited on 10/27/21 at 10:07 am
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:07 am to Bob Knights Liver
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Pod 1
UGA
South Carolina
Auburn
Florida
Too many horses.
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Pod 2
Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky
Vandy
Way too weak. Swap Auburn and Kentucky.
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Pod 3
Ole Miss
Miss St
LSU
Texas A&M
Meh
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Pod 4
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mizzou
Not bad.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:15 am to VolsUberAlles
East
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
West
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Ole Miss
Texas
Texas A&M
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
West
Arkansas
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Ole Miss
Texas
Texas A&M
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:16 am to wadewilson
Each individual pod shouldn’t care about strength and balance since it will always be matched with another pod. Pods and the one outside pod opponent should just do what makes sense to maintain rivalries for those that care about them and allow more rotation for those that don’t.
Cotton Pod
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mizzou
tu(permanent A&M)
Magnolia Pod
Ole Miss(permanent State)
LSU
Texas A&M(permanent tu)
Vanderbilt(permanent UT)
Dixie Pod
Alabama(permanent Auburn)
Tennessee(permanent Vandy)
Mississippi State(permanent Ole Miss)
Kentucky
Peach Pod
Auburn(Permanent Alabama)
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
The 8 teams without permanent opponents rotate with each other. When your permanent out of pod opponent is in your pod, you can play a secondary designated opponent(like Bama and LSU).
Year 1
Division A = Cotton + Magnolia
Division B = Dixie + Peach
Year 2
Division A = Cotton + Dixie
Division B = Magnolia + Peach
Year 3
Division A = Cotton + Peach
Division B = Dixie + Magnolia
Now. You can argue that A&M is going to absolutely dominate the pod if Vandy, Ole Miss and LSU are in their pod. That’s true. That’s pretty much 3-0 guaranteed each year. However, Aggy won’t be in a division with just those three. They’ll have Alabama and Georgia in their division 2 out of 3 years. Matching with the Cotton Pod would be 7-0 but o well.
Cotton Pod
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mizzou
tu(permanent A&M)
Magnolia Pod
Ole Miss(permanent State)
LSU
Texas A&M(permanent tu)
Vanderbilt(permanent UT)
Dixie Pod
Alabama(permanent Auburn)
Tennessee(permanent Vandy)
Mississippi State(permanent Ole Miss)
Kentucky
Peach Pod
Auburn(Permanent Alabama)
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
The 8 teams without permanent opponents rotate with each other. When your permanent out of pod opponent is in your pod, you can play a secondary designated opponent(like Bama and LSU).
Year 1
Division A = Cotton + Magnolia
Division B = Dixie + Peach
Year 2
Division A = Cotton + Dixie
Division B = Magnolia + Peach
Year 3
Division A = Cotton + Peach
Division B = Dixie + Magnolia
Now. You can argue that A&M is going to absolutely dominate the pod if Vandy, Ole Miss and LSU are in their pod. That’s true. That’s pretty much 3-0 guaranteed each year. However, Aggy won’t be in a division with just those three. They’ll have Alabama and Georgia in their division 2 out of 3 years. Matching with the Cotton Pod would be 7-0 but o well.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:16 am to OldRebYeller
Bama and auburn to the east, Mizzou, OU and UT to the west, play every one in your division, rotate 2 teams from other division and alternate the SEC championship between the Benz in ATL and Jerry's world in Dallas
But that makes to much sense, so it will not happen..
But that makes to much sense, so it will not happen..
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:17 am to Sampson
The problem with pods is every single one of them puts Auburn with “one more than everyone else” of the Big Six every time.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:24 am to ptclaus98
If the League moves forward with a pod system (which seems inevitable), they must take into account the strengths of each program during a relatively-modern timeframe. With four pods, it must spread the eight stronger programs amongst the four pods.
As much as a current SEC fan may hate it, Texas and Oklahoma DO qualify as two of the new "Big Eight" schools. Your proposal sticks two pods with six of the Eight, and just gives a pod each to Alabama and LSU.
That will never happen.
As much as a current SEC fan may hate it, Texas and Oklahoma DO qualify as two of the new "Big Eight" schools. Your proposal sticks two pods with six of the Eight, and just gives a pod each to Alabama and LSU.
That will never happen.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:28 am to TeLeFaWx
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Now. You can argue that A&M is going to absolutely dominate the pod if Vandy, Ole Miss and LSU are in their pod. That’s true. That’s pretty much 3-0 guaranteed each year.
You poor, dumb bastard.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:34 am to allin2010
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SEC Traditional
Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, LSU, MISS state, Ole Miss, Vandy
SEC SWC
Texas, Oklahoma, TAMU, Arkie, Mizzou, USC add Okie State, Iowa State, Baylor, Texas Tech
That's just two separate conferences.
We could've basically had this scenario if the Big Eight had added Arkansas instead of Texas back in the early 90s. And the SEC could've stayed at 10 teams, or added FSU with South Carolina. The reimagined Big 12 probably would not have destabilized without Texas constantly trying to screw everyone else over.
And everyone (except maybe Arkansas fans) would be happy.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:36 am to KingofTexas
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Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Florida
This would be the ultimate college football gauntlet
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:37 am to Sampson
Pods. This one from starkvingrad seems to make the most sense:
quote:I'm assuming this would only be for football? No idea how they'd schedule the other sports
East- UF, SCAR, UGA, UK
Central- Vandy, Bama, Auburn, Tenn
South- LSU, A&M, State, OM
West- Texas, Mizzou, OU, Ark
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:39 am to SECdragonmaster
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The problem with pods is every single one of them puts Auburn with “one more than everyone else” of the Big Six every time.
Wouldn't that be true of whichever Big 6 team they are in the pod with?
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:42 am to wadewilson
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You poor, dumb bastard.
After being dominated in the past, Texas A&M has done pretty well the last 3-4 years, along with a probable win this year. LSU fans must recognize that there at least appears to be a power shift going on between Texas A&M and LSU.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:48 am to DawgsLife
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LSU fans must recognize that there at least appears to be a power shift going on between Texas A&M and LSU.
There's not. The 2018 was bullshite, and Ed has been negligent since the national championship game.
Will LSU win every game? No, but we'll win 6 or 7 out of every 10.
LSU is just a better football program.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 10:55 am to Sampson
Texas and OU to the West. Auburn and Alabama to the East.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 11:24 am to starkvingrad
U can go ahead and kill the notion of some pod system. Bama and aub are going east. The sec isn't gonna have a 4 team playoff to decide conference champ. It also makes sense geographically to have Bama playing UGA, Florida, Tennessee, south Carolina, etc vs a&m, Texas, mizzou. Lsu and arkie are much closer to those regions.
Posted on 10/27/21 at 11:30 am to starkvingrad
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East- UF, SCAR, UGA, UK
Central- Vandy, Bama, Auburn, Tenn
Historically UK, UT, and VU have been tied together, not sure I see them separated now. Tickets and donors make these valuable matchups
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