re: Texas A&M has been in the SEC for 13 years

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Texas A&M has been in the SEC for 13 years

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And don’t have shite to show for it but the piss dripping down your leg.

That is weird. I know in the early days it had a few extra teams. But it was ten teams for years.

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..and they've only played Georgia and Kentucky once each in Football since joining.

Seems kinda low, no?

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There are basically 2 ways you can run into an SEC opponent, schedule, and Atlanta. TAMU could see Georgia all they want IF they ever get to The Bird's Nest.

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That is weird. I know in the early days it had a few extra teams. But it was ten teams for years.

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Up to some point in time (I want to say 1982), the league didn't make out the schedule for the schools. The only rule with regard to scheduling was you had to play a minimum number of SEC games in order to be eligible for the SEC title (and there were even some exceptions to that). So, some schools would play five SEC games, some would play six or seven.

There were years when the title was decided by the fact that one team played more games than another. There were matchups that were played every year (or close to it), and matchups that were almost never played.

Feuds were indulged. Georgia Tech wouldn't play the Mississippi schools. Bama played Georgia every year until a magazine article accused Bear and the Georgia coach of gambling, and then they simply stopped.

And then there was the issue of where matchups were played. Because gate revenue was split evenly, schools with small stadiums generally wanted to play schools with big stadiums, and the ones with big stadiums would sometimes refuse to travel to the small ones. For example, Tennessee played Auburn regularly starting in the '50s, but never in Auburn until 1980; Auburn was forced to play their "home" games against Tennessee at Legion Field in Birmingham.

It’s funny, because I see people talking about getting the old original sec back…and Georgia has played LSU a total of 33 times. Tennessee / LSU 34 times.

By comparison:

LSU Overall Record Against Rice : 38-13-5

That’s not a conference.

I'm still miffed my 2020 guys Bourbon tour and LSU road game to Kentucky got nixed by Fauci and his minions.

This thread held up fairly well. I thought it would go south in a hurry.

I’d buy it but we’ve played Tenn like 4 times, Florida probably more. Explain that reasoning?

And no change in schedule this year other than home/away.