re: SEC teams your team has played the fewest times

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But was it set by the SEC who plays whom in each year...or left up to the schools to decide their schedule?

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Pretty sure it was up to the schools.

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But was it set by the SEC who plays whom in each year...or left up to the schools to decide their schedule?

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Not sure if it was set up by the SEC but the schedule has been pretty much standard since 1974. The only exceptions were '76 and '77 where Alabama and Ole Miss played an additional game which counted in the standings. They did the same in '80 and '81 but those games didn't count. Prior to 1973, some schools played extra games. Alabama did it the most by rotating Ole Miss, Georgia and Florida on to the schedule frequently. In '72 and '73, Alabama played everyone except Ole Miss.

The "Roomate Switch" divisional pod system is too complicated, while still not addressing some of the key matchups.

The better solution is to simply get rid of divisions, and adopt a 8 game schedule where you play 3 teams every year, and rotate the other 10 (5 and 5). That way you play everyone in the league home and away over the course of four years. It's the same basic scheduling format used in basketball. The 3 permanent rivals for each school would look something like this:

Bama: Auburn, State, UT
Arkansas: Mizzou, A&M, LSU
Auburn: Bama UF, UGA
Florida: Auburn, UGA, USC
UGA: USC, UF, Auburn
Kentucky: Mizzou, UT, MSU
LSU: A&M, Ole Miss, Arkansas
Ole Miss: State, LSU, Vandy
Miss. State: Ole Miss, Bama, UK
Missouri: Arkansas, A&M, UK
South Carolina: UGA, UF, Vandy
Tenn: Vandy, UK, Bama
A&M: LSU, Arkansas, Mizzou
Vandy: UT, Ole Miss, USC

Yes, the competitive balance isn't perfect, but that's largely due to certain schools' desire to resume historic rivalries (See Auburn, who has been complaining for quite some time about not getting to play Florida annually, a matchup that was played a lot because nobody else wanted to travel to Auburn or Gainesville, so they played each other home and home).

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Oh and it seems Miss State has played everybody the most. They must've started football in the 1800s

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Everyone goes to the bakery for a cupcake now and then

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Posted by
MedDawg

Mississippi State's is more difficult by far.


Auburn
399 games vs Big 6

Mississippi State
550 games vs Big 6, and a HUGE majority of them were away games.

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In fairness, it's kind of hard to have more games against the B6 when you ARE PART OF the B6.

#1 - that's the breakdown on the Roommate Switch website.

#2 - what about the long history against MSU?

With divisions, you sometimes get a mismatch in the title game. You don't have that problem if you eliminate divisions. Tie breakers are an issue with divisions, the only difference is that you cannot have a tie between teams that haven't played in a divisional setup, but you can easily have 3 way ties in a division where the 3 teams simply traded victories which are very hard to break (and unlikely to happen with a non-divisional schedule).

The roommate switch was tried by the WAC and the fans didn't like it.

You can have a three way tie with the divisions as they already are though. The roommate switch doesn't change that potential outcome. The SEC already has established rules for breaking those types of ties.

So I don't see a helpful reason or advantage to removing divisions altogether when the framework of a division gives the structure of the season a reason to follow a lot of individual outcomes more closely.

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twk
SEC teams your team has played the fewest times
With divisions, you sometimes get a mismatch in the title game. You don't have that problem if you eliminate divisions. Tie breakers are an issue with divisions, the only difference is that you cannot have a tie between teams that haven't played in a divisional setup, but you can easily have 3 way ties in a division where the 3 teams simply traded victories which are very hard to break (and unlikely to happen with a non-divisional schedule).

The roommate switch was tried by the WAC and the fans didn't like it.

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& what is considered a "mismatch" in the title game? You have the winner from Group 1 vrs. the winner of Group 2....which are the rules to determine the title game members. Just because somebody doesn't think a team should participate DOES NOT mean they didn't do what it took to get to the title game.

To do your plan, then every conference should have a true round-robin format & therefore not need a CG (sort of like what the B12 SHOULD be doing).


WHAT division has ever had a 3-way tie?

SEC 2012 FB Season

This wants to put UGA & UF as co-winners, but Ga. WON due to the head-to-head over Fl.. I believe it's their formula that's listing it as such even though it's incorrect.

BTW, the WAC did NOT do the "Roommate Switch". Their idea, which I appreciate was 4X4 pods where each year 2 pods paired up. The catch was their format: P1 & P4 only paired up with P2 or P3...NEVER EACH OTHER! My plan has each pod pairing up every 3 years (Y1 - P1/P2 vrs. P3/P4; Y2 - P1/P3 vrs. P2/P4; Y3 - P1/P4 vrs. P2/P3).