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re: Your 3 “permanent rivals”?

Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:43 pm to
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
6478 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:43 pm to
SEC should just tell the rest of the country to frick off and have a 15 team round robin schedule.
Posted by Soonerd78
Member since Sep 2024
2664 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:00 pm to
Texas LSU Arky . 3 schools close to OU and it would be a balanced schedule .
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 2:01 pm
Posted by GamecockUltimate
Columbia,SC
Member since Feb 2019
9163 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:06 pm to
quote:

Edit - The scenario above would represent Arkansas being pushed out of the Southeastern Conference. Betrayal is the only word to describe it. If that pairing is the future, then Arkansas should have never joined this conference.


I mean as a Gamecock I am kind of saying the same thing. Because the league tries so hard to keep old conference rivalries, SC gets pushed out to playing A&M, OU, and Mizzou....none of which we give 2 shits about.

The SEC has to be willing to sacrifice some old rivalries...which they lost the argument for when they agreed to expand
Posted by BigBro
Member since Jul 2021
19588 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:12 pm to
quote:

Why is Georgia’s P3…Georgia?

MSU’s is…MSU.

It has mistakes, as I said in the post.. I just threw it together..
Posted by Insurancerebel
Madison
Member since Aug 2021
2783 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:21 pm to
quote:

For Ole Miss:
1. LSU
2. MSU
3. Arkansas


Vandy should be on there, they were for so long. It only makes sense! trade LSU for Vandy!
Posted by Jimmy Bags
Member since Apr 2025
578 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:24 pm to
LSU:

Alabama
Florida
Ole Miss/Auburn
Posted by gamecockman12
Columbia, SC
Member since Aug 2012
7992 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:38 pm to
UGA Florida Kentucky. Although the Mizzou games have been a blast.
Posted by lsudave1
Baton Metairie
Member since Jan 2005
11452 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:42 pm to
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Not really a rival when you lose to Bama 80% of the time. Especially at home


Its a more competitive series than Bama vs Tennessee this century
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 2:43 pm
Posted by gamecockman12
Columbia, SC
Member since Aug 2012
7992 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:42 pm to
quote:

Florida - Georgia, S. Carolina, LSU
Georgia - Florida, Auburn, S. Carolina
South Carolina - Vandy, Florida, Georgia
Tennessee - Kentucky, Bama, Vandy
Kentucky - Tennessee, Miss State, Auburn
Vanderbilt - S. Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee
Alabama - Auburn, Tennessee, Miss State
Auburn - Bama, Georgia, Kentucky
Ole Miss - Miss State, LSU, A&M
Mississippi State - Ole Miss, Kentucky, Bama
LSU - A&M, Ole Miss, Florida
Texas A&M - LSU, Texas, Ole Miss
Texas - Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas
Oklahoma - Texas, Arkansas, Missouri
Arkansas - Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas
Missouri - Arkansas, Vandy, Oklahoma


The only correct answer.
Posted by weremoose
Member since Nov 2015
5101 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:43 pm to
For me personally,

1 Texas
2 Tennessee
3 TCU(football) UNC (basketball)

For the program as a whole:

1. Texas
2. LSU
3. Aggie
Posted by weremoose
Member since Nov 2015
5101 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:46 pm to
Nah, Missouri is boring. I can't bring myself to care about the outcome very much, and I never look at their schedule or their record even when we're playing them.

inb4 "it's because we always beat you." Nah, I just don't care. Aggie has been whooping that arse too and I DO care about that.
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 2:47 pm
Posted by twk
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jul 2011
2788 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:51 pm to
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Nah, Missouri is boring. I can't bring myself to care about the outcome very much, and I never look at their schedule or their record even when we're playing them.

inb4 "it's because we always beat you." Nah, I just don't care. Aggie has been whooping that arse too and I DO care about that.
I understand, but Missouri has to play someone, and you happen to be next door. If I were an Arkansas fan, they wouldn't be high on my list either. Missouri's real rival isn't an SEC team, but they are going to play 3 schools every year, unless we pull a Big Ten and just go to something crazy where some teams have 3 permanent opponents, and others have one.

The reason I like 3/6 where you play everyone over four years is, apart from selection of the initial 3, it minimizes opportunities for schedule manipulation by Birmingham.
Posted by BigBro
Member since Jul 2021
19588 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:51 pm to
How about we kick out Missouri and add Oklahoma State?

Would y'all like that rival better?
Posted by BigBro
Member since Jul 2021
19588 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:54 pm to
quote:

it minimizes opportunities for schedule manipulation by Birmingham.

I know people like to complain about an easy schedule, but do some people here actually think that schedules get manipulated? Surely you don't actually think that.
Posted by weremoose
Member since Nov 2015
5101 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:00 pm to
Ok but don't take LSU away. Take Aggie away (no offense to y'all. Only that most middle age people and younger remember the Boot more than the SWC)
Posted by TriStateAreaFootball
Member since Dec 2024
1594 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:03 pm to
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I know people like to complain about an easy schedule, but do some people here actually think that schedules get manipulated? Surely you don't actually think that.

Depends on your definition.

In 2013, Arkansas didn't win a conference game the whole year. Auburn won the conference and played in the national championship.

The opening game of 2014 was Arkansas at Auburn. Arkansas had never and has not since opened the season with a conference game. Auburn has certainly never traveled to Fayetteville to open a season.

Hope this helps.
Posted by superstroke33
Member since Oct 2015
797 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:11 pm to
Florida, even though we've never had easy permanent rivals, is:

UGA ,Tennessee and LSU or Auburn. LSU has become a rivalry but AUB has more history

There are a number of SEC teams now that don't have big SEC natural rivals.

Tennessee - Kentucky, Bama, Vandy, Really?
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 3:15 pm
Posted by RandySavage
9 Time Natty Winner
Member since May 2012
34762 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:19 pm to
No auburn fan regardless of age is saying ole miss. The younger fan would say lsu as our third along with the obvious two.
Posted by MtVernon
Member since Jul 2024
10238 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:19 pm to
quote:

How about we kick out Missouri and add Oklahoma State?


Every day and twice on Sunday.
Posted by 3down10
Member since Sep 2014
36890 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 3:29 pm to
9 games will be terrible for the conference.
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