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

Might as well do away with all permanent opponents. Doesn't really make sense when half the teams don't have in-state conference rivals.

Maybe allow the ones who want to keep it make that a 9th conference game.

It sucks, but not nearly as hard as the other shite they've done to the conference/game.

Its more of trying to balance out the actual conference games with every team actually trying to play each other.

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Or you could just schedule those rivalries as non-conference games

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I like this idea in theory, and it has worked for other conferences, but those rivalries although storied, have little to no impact on who plays for the conference title and larger CFP implications.

I can't imagine a 10-1 Alabama or Texas playing a 9-2 Auburn or Texas A&M the last game of the season and knowing it has no impact on who plays in Atlanta because those games are OOC due to the pod scheduling and the field in Atlanta is already set.

I want to keep CFB resembling something close to what I grew to absolutely love. In a 3x Perms/6x Rotating there are going to be teams that regularly have tougher schedules than others. Just from this thread, State would likely have Ole Miss, Alabama, and LSU as it's 3x Perms in a 3/6 schedule. That's fricking rough especially considering where State is at as a program (I know you are an Ole Miss fan so likely would love that for them, but I'm trying to be as impartial as possible).

9 conference games (3/6), 3x OOC games with at least 1x G4 OOC. Or go the opposite way with it and do 6x SEC games (3/3) and everyone can load up on the Sisters of the Poor in OOC.

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I want to keep CFB resembling something close to what I grew to absolutely love.

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As do I.

My proposed pod did not have MSU playing those three exactly.

I would put Ark/LSU/OM/MSU in a pod. That's one of the easier of my pods so I'm not sure how MSU could get an easier draw annually. There has to be some effort at balance inside the pods but, really, that's not as important as the creating of identical (or nearly identical) division schedules each year.

When that pod joins with my Bama/UT/AU/Vandy pod.....to create a temporary division....they play identical 7 game conference schedules.

We could add 1/2 perms or floating type games that count to ensure AU/UGA and LSU/A&M, stuff like that that. It would kick off the overall fairness to win your division that way but it would allow even more rivalries to be maintained while creating as near to a fair division schedule as we could possibly get.....that also rotates through the entire conference every 6 years.

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WHY wouldn’t they play ALL their podmates each year?

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They do.

3 pod mates every year
For LSU in pod B, that means games every year against Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Texas A&M.
1 game against their permanent opponent. That means Arkansas every year for LSU.

Two home, Two Away, Four Total.

The other three pods would rotate onto the schedule:
Two pods at a time, two teams from each pod, Two home, Two Away, Four Total.

That makes for an 8 game schedule.

You see every team at least twice in each 8 year span (that could mean back to back, as in what I proposed, or once every 4 years (at a minimum).

ETA, the only yearly rivalry that seems to be impacted is Tennessee and Vandy.

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All the more reason to do pods and 7 game conference schedule.

Keeping a handful of rivalries as nonconferemce is purely optional for the schools.

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Will never happen. The only hope for this mess is to blow it up. That is a Sankey problem and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the early returns.

The number of teams in the playoff is irrelevant. Either they are the BEST teams, regardless of CCG or we are going to continue to have as many pretenders as contenders.

Go to 9 and ditch the pussy FCS game in November

Three permanent rivals. Then play home and away against 6 other teams year 1 and 2. And home and away against the other 6 years 3 and 4.

Guarantees you play everyone at least twice every 4 years.

So, you're also saying "EVEN years gives us 4 or 5H games, while ODD gives us the other H games".

How do you determine who gets which yearly setup?

Pods also keep the flexibility of games between certain schools if they're in different groups. & an easy format if/when expansion occurs (* catch is conference size would have to be divisible by 4).


"That'll allow one or two conference games to keep other rivalries if you do 8/9 conference game schedule. Or you could just schedule those rivalries as non-conference games or as not counting in the division standings that determine who plays in the SECCG."

WHY should a conf. rivalry game NOT count as a conf. game (it STILL counts in the rivalry history)?

Now I see the setup.