re: You're the AD - Pods or Permanent Opponents?

"I like the idea of pods for scheduling and having no divisions like in basketball. Top two teams play for the SEC Championship. Tie breakers could be tricky and controversial though."

I tend to agree. Make it clean and simple.

I love Bama annually, but the chance to play Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Oklahoma every other year is appealing for this die-hard fan.

How do you fairly determine SECCG participants with pods? Will be a total mess imho.

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West Pod
Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma

Southwest Pod
LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Texas A&M

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I really don't see the point in keeping OU and Texas or Bear and State in the same pod, if pods are the decision.

I would move Texas down and Ole Miss up. They'll get their permanent rivalry anyway.

Arkansas, OU, Missouri, Ole Miss

LSU, Texas, TAMC, State

Just easier geographically.

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How do you fairly determine SECCG participants with pods?

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With fixed pods, you have options:

o winner of each pod goes to 4 team playoff

o Given the possibility of an expanded national playoff, you might not want the extra semi-final playoff games, so you take two of the pod winners. Use SEC record. Head to head to break ties. If still tied could use common SEC opponent records, and finally national ranking. Personally, I would skip the common opponent and go straight to nat. ranking.

With permanent games it is a little more straight forward. You just take the teams with the best records and use the above tie breakers. The difference with the second option above is that in the above the 2nd best team could be in the same pod of one of the pod winners. The pod model above would exclude that team, but the permanent game model would not.