re: Rivalry Games

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Sit down bitch. Go get in the back of the line. You are a peasant in this league.

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I’m trying to help. I think I have updated the OP with all feedback.

My initial thought process is that maybe 5 permanent games + 5 rotating games might work. But that would be 10 SEC games each year.

Ok, here, let me help you:

TIER 1 - These are games that, if they are not played, there will be earthquakes and lightning, the dead rising from their graves, dogs and cats living together, etc. These games define the SEC, not just now, but forever.

Alabama vs Auburn
Auburn vs Georgia
Alabama vs Tennessee
Georgia vs Florida
Ole Miss vs Mississippi State

If y'all end up joining, I'd throw Texas vs Texas A&M and Oklahoma vs Texas into this tier. Yes, I know UT/A&M isn't currently being played, but that's because y'all are both a bunch of whiny babies. College football as a whole deserves that game.

TIER 2 - These are games that people would really miss if they were gone, but there might not be rioting in the streets over it.

LSU vs Alabama
LSU vs Ole Miss
LSU vs Florida
Auburn vs Florida
Texas A&M vs LSU
Tennessee vs Florida
Tennessee vs Georgia

TIER 3 - These games are generally far more important to one team than the other.

Alabama vs Mississippi State
Tennessee vs Kentucky
Tennessee vs Vanderbilt
Georgia vs South Carolina
LSU vs Arkansas
Arkansas vs Missouri

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I’m trying to help. I think I have updated the OP with all feedback.

My initial thought process is that maybe 5 permanent games + 5 rotating games might work. But that would be 10 SEC games each year.

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This is how you have to do it. Play 9 conference games, 3 fixed and rotate the remaining 6 every other year. Obviously those remaining six can be managed and tinkered with to create parity. This scenario allows you to be able to play every single one of those rivalries I listed.

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Texas A&M vs LSU

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TIER 4

You forgot lsu auburn. That series held the sec west up high for almost a decade

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This is how you have to do it

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I like it. I am perfectly fine trading Tennessee for Auburn. Something tells me if we knew we'd be going to one permanent from the get go, the divisions would have been set up differently. We have little to no history with Tennessee prior to the division format.

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The goal was to learn which games are really important

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We don't want you here. No one likes you. You can't sit at our table. Its best if you just leave now while you can.

You already messed up rivalry games with your bullshite in your own conference. But now, rivalry games are important to you?

GTFOH

You can dump SC from UGA's "must play 3-some".

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This is how you have to do it. Play 9 conference games, 3 fixed and rotate the remaining 6 every other year. Obviously those remaining six can be managed and tinkered with to create parity. This scenario allows you to be able to play every single one of those rivalries I listed.

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Nice work but imbalanced pods. No way Auburn plays 3 of the “Big 6” every year. The way you handle that is maintaining rivalries while having 2 “traditional powers” in the same pod, and two non-traditional powers in the same pod. The only pod that gets messed up is the Bama/AU/UT pod. You could potentially do a 9 game season with the rest of the pod mates and 1 permanent rival from another pod. Think traditional program level vs traditional program level from another pod, IE Bama vs UT, Texas vs Texas A&M, LSU be OU, etc.. (FYI I have not tried to put this 4x4 pod +1 permanent on paper and define a 4 year schedule in it but I think it might still work)

Pod mates traditional powers “big 6 +2”
UGA/FL
Bama/AU/ and perhaps UT in this pod for rivalry reasons
UT/OU
LSU/ TA&m? I guess A&M gets elevated in this scenario even though they haven’t done squat in the SEC. This is why it’s a bad idea to keep UT in the Bama/AU pod.

Pod mates Non traditional powers
You guys know the rivalries. Stick the two that play against the two in your pod that mean the most. I have a spreadsheet but I’m not going to take a screenshot to post it. Having said that my original spreadsheet from 4 years ago has KU added instead of Texas. I never thought TX would be happy having 1/16 votes

Also if you do this for the other super 4 conferences (4x16=64 teams) 2 traditional powers and 2 non traditional powers almost all rivalries are played yearly in the S4 and the schedule balance is awesome. Literally multiple GREAT games every week of the season. If conferences gave up scheduling decisions for OOC games it gets really interesting .With a scheduling czar requiring 9 conference games and 2 S4 OOC you could see one year a B1G vs SEC challenge that is 16 vs 16 team league schedule (ie 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, etc) for 1 of the OOC games.

The idea of not playing Ole Miss every year would make me cry.