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re: The SEC needs to go back to divisions, move to 9 games schedule, scrap importance of OOC
Posted on 12/8/24 at 5:25 pm to Hawgeye
Posted on 12/8/24 at 5:25 pm to Hawgeye
Today just confirmed the sec isn’t playing 9 games unless espn comes up with a ton of money. They cannibalized themselves this year.
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Posted on 12/8/24 at 5:26 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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When it was first amine the sec going to 16 teams two formats were being hotly debated:
3 permanents and 6 rotating
1 permanent and 7 rotating
This gets the maximum distribution of teams playing each other and evens schedules as much as possible.
Certain fan bases were not ok with this because 2 or 3 of their historic rivals are good.
AFAIK you can get the rival games with only 2 each. It will still work with 3 though.
9 games isn't good. We need SoS to matter and we need to have more OOC games of high quality.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 5:28 pm to lsujag
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Today just confirmed the sec isn’t playing 9 games unless espn comes up with a ton of money. They cannibalized themselves this year.
When this first came out I was in the “Go to 9! We are big boys!” Seeing how it is now and frankly the deal ESPN is getting on the sec TV contract, I agree with you. Unless they pony up big time stay at 8
Posted on 12/8/24 at 5:28 pm to Hawgeye
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move to 9 games schedule
There is no incentive to do this after today.
Posted on 12/8/24 at 5:29 pm to 3down10
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AFAIK you can get the rival games with only 2 each. It will still work with 3 though.
With 1 or 3 permanents you can cycle through all 15 other SEC teams in 4 years if you play an 8 or 9 game schedule respectively.
I don’t know how that will work with 2 permanents because that’s 3 teams meaning there are 13 other teams. I can’t divide 13 evenly by 2 or 4
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