re: SEC 7-1 Conference Schedule Model - One permanent opponent

The obvious solution (geographically) is Ala. & Aub. East & Mizz. West.

Then the debate goes into rotation of the other division.

As to SECCG, why change what wasn’t broken: East winner vrs. West winner?

Yet geographically all over (like Mizz. in the East).

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If a rivalry game means that much to your team and they are not on the schedule that year, schedule it as a non-conference game.

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If it’s a CONFERENCE rival, it’s a CONFERENCE GAME.

However, you have to incorporate rivalries into this, or else you have a 7 game season.

The only FAIR way is to get a rotation & stick with it. This way everybody knows they’ll have easier paths & tougher paths.

Not when we lost the 4 in-state SEC/ACC rivalries.

9 SEC games, 3 Perms/6 Rotating.

That would still allow for an OOC P5, G5, and FCS game.

I know I am not the only one who has bemoaned what CFB has become, and the payday games to G5/FCS teams are absolutely necessary in the grand scheme of things. The FCS and to a lesser extent G5 schools need those payday games for their entire athletic departments.

Not to mention that those G5/FCS games are usually early games and have cheaper tickets, so it is easier to take kids to those games and get them interested in college sports.

But Disney or someone will have to pay the conference for the increased SEC games. There is no incentive to replace a usually winnable game with another conference game without more money.

While it is convenient as hell to turn on ABC, ESPN, or SECN and keep it on that channel all day, the smart thing to do would be to divide the inventory into two blocks (by home team) and have bidding for each block, plus a separate auction for the SECCG.

With what the SEC brings viewership wise, it isn't like an important game will be on The CW or CBSSN even if multiple networks have the SEC FB TV rights.

I also think that the way SEC basketball (men's and women's) and baseball is, those would bring in enough in a separate package to make it worthwhile. And the B1G has shown that you can have multiple broadcast partners and still have your own conference network.

This season has shown that an open conference creates too much disparity in scheduling. Except UGA, all of the top records this year in the SEC came from bottom half schedules. All of the bottom records came from top half schedules.

Go back to divisions.
You do a 9 game conference schedule. Game 9 is either neutral site or home & home (determined by the teams involved). You play 7 division games, two cross division.
Division + A + b
Division + C + d
Division + E + f
Division + G + h
Flip home / away for the second cycle.
You play everyone in your division yearly. You play everyone in the other division every four years.

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Flip home / away for the second cycle. You play everyone in your division yearly. You play everyone in the other division every four years.

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Everything that makes sense GOES AGAINST whoever’s idea that you have to do a full H/A rotation in 4 years. (My idea keeping all important games) would take 6 years to do a full rotation.)