No SEC team plays 10 or more P5 Opponents

Every league should play a 9 game schedule and only power 5 out of conference. It'd be a huge shot in the arm to big time college football. The little guys....well, sorry.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if the other conferences can’t get it done in the playoffs.

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Is there an issue with scheduling?

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There is if you are just looking at P5 opponents. The thing is there are a lot of non-P5 teams better than the P5 scrubs.

The SEC needs to start scheduling teams like Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland, Syracuse, Oregon State, etc.

9 and 10 were both top 25 teams, too. But no they still say we were only 9-4 because of our easy schedule.

Good point, either way we have a target because no one wants to admit we do it better than everyone else.

It took a whole new offensive strategy just to stir things up for a few years then we regained control for the most part.

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9 B12 teams play 10 P5 foes

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Kansas shouldn't be considered a "P5 foe" anymore. They've won 15 games in 8 years.

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A 9 or 10 game SEC schedule will stop this talk

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The SEC would be foolish to play a nine game conference schedule and then expect the two division champions to play a tenth game in Atlanta.

It would be suicidal.

Furthermore, when you've got SC, UF, UK and UGA playing P5 conference instate rivalry games on too boot ... it wouldn't be cool. All three of them Eastern Division members who are politically obligated, in their states, to play Clemson, FSU, Louisville and Ga Tech every year ... and honestly, vice versa for those ACC programs who play considerably easier conference schedules.

A&M no longer plays Texas, Nebraska no longer plays Oklahoma, hell Mizzou no longer plays Kansas even ... so what you would be forcing those four SEC East teams to do is drop their rivalry games and that is absolutely not going to happen in any of our lifetimes.

It is what it is but it would be suicidal for the SEC overall given the nature of the SECCG and the toughness of the league.

The B1G is the only other conference that can make the same legitimate argument right now but they also don't have to deal with as many of their members having instate must-played rivalry games. Hell, Michigan dropped ND when the B1G wemt to nine games and that was the closest any of them had to having such an OoC issue.

Didn't Kentucky and Indiana used to play every year back in the day until we went to eight games?

A ninth game is really not feasible for the SEC unless it is to make concessions for realigning the two divisions so that they can keep the TSIO game in tact or in the case of conference expansion to 16 teams with the addition of a North Carolina and Virginia team to our membership ... and that's not going to happen any time soon.

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Arkansas got a waiver on the P5 OOC requirement because Michigan backed out of a game against the hogs. True story.

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A year or two later Michigan backed out of a series with Virginia Tech... and replaced them with a Sunbelt team. Both were relatively last minute cancellations.

Every now and then cancellations are going to happen, its just the way college football works, but Michigan is starting to make a habit of it.

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Furthermore, when you've got SC, UF, UK and UGA playing P5 conference instate rivalry games on too boot

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I'm pro-nine game SEC schedule but I will freely admit I would be vehemently opposed if I were a fan of one of these teams. It's going to make those teams choose between either having essentially the same schedule every year (when it comes to good teams) or playing some hellacious schedules.