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Oklahoma Reporter Goes On Rant Against SEC Scheduling

by Staff Reporter

July 28, 202516 Comments

Veteran OU insider Berry Tramel went on a pretty good rant recently against SEC scheduling, specifically the easy non-conference games that teams play.

Tramel pointed out how the Sooners will play Temple, Kent State, and Illinois State this season, which fans don't even want to watch. Per On3:

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“People I don’t think understand the illness of college football, which is the regular season is not near as good as everybody says it is,” the Tulsa World writer said. “The SEC plays only eight conference games. That means four nonconference games and two or three teams are playing legitimate nonconference opponents. The rest are just playing one. Oklahoma’s playing Temple, Kent State and Illinois State. Illinois State, 1-AA, might be the best of those three. I mean, Temple stinks and Kent State’s the worst FBS team. They’re terrible.

“That’s three out of 12. That’s 25% of the season is exhibition. Literally. That’s most of the way it is in the SEC and other conferences too, but when 25% of the SEC games are games you don’t wanna watch, you don’t care about, you know what’s gonna happen — I wish that’s what we would treat and talk about and do something about. I got all fired up when I heard (Eli) Drinkwitz say he wanted to play nine conference games.”

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BPTiger•4 months

He’s not wrong. The current setup disincentivizes premier OOC matchups. If LSU plays a cupcake in week one and loses two SEC games LSU is in the playoff. If LSU loses to a probable top 5 Clemson team in week one and loses two SEC games they’re not in the playoff.

In the BCS or 4-team playoff losing two, (I know,) pretty much meant you were out. Current system/playoff committee encourages a week OOC schedule.

how333•4 months

This coming from a fan whose team played in a two team league for 50+ years. Oklahoma/Nebraska

biglego•4 months

Your crapping on the guy bc he wants his team to play tougher games?

CSATiger•4 months

It just means more

Fan1958•4 months

The problem with the schedule is it's unfairly weighted. Texas played teams with a combined conference record of 24-40 including 4 teams with below .500 conference records, including 2 with a combined record of 1-15. They avoided Bama, Tenner, OM, Mizzou and even LSU. Toughest opponent was UGA and...they lost.

Arkansas on the other hand played teams with a combined conference record of 35-29 which did include Tenner, OM, Mizzou and LSU just for good measure.

Since CFB has become NFL Lite, work the schedules accrodingly.

Fan1958•4 months

The problem with the schedule is it's unfairly weighted. Texas played teams with a combined conference record of 24-40 including 4 teams with below .500 conference records and 2 with a combined record of 1-15. They avoided Bama, Tenner, OM, Mizzou and even LSU. Toughest opponent was UGA and...they lost.

Arkansas on the other hand played teams with a combined conference record of 35-29 which did include Tenner, OM, Mizzou and LSU just for good measure.

Since CFB is becoming NFL Lite, configure the schedules accordingly.

1cajuncook•4 months

Georgia starts with Marshall that withdrew from the bowl game because they didn’t have enough players. Ridiculous.

southernboisb•4 months

“ Georgia starts with Marshall that withdrew from the bowl game because they didn’t have enough players. Ridiculous.”

So concern about the wear/tear on the body of less players is a bad thing?

Clark14•4 months

Teams have scheduled cupcakes forever, why is it an issue now?

GreatPumpkin•4 months

They are going to need every bit of those de facto bye weeks if they are going to survive their conference schedule

FriscoTiger•4 months

OU should have scheduled better out of conference opponents. Their whole schedule was boring before they moved to the sec.

theOG•4 months

We play Michigan… we have a good OOC game pretty much every year.

tirebiter•4 months

All I can say is that with Les LSU scheduled some highly competitive teams game 1. Kelly has had some tough openers that LSU lost. I would like a 9 game SEC schedule.

El Jefe de Tu Mama•4 months

And you'll still go 6-6.

Lynxrufus2012•4 months

Well since there are no exhibitions games to work on improving your team prior to playing the big boys, this is what has evolved. Most SEC teams play one Power five opponent in their non conference schedule. So that leaves three “easy” games which are occasionally lost. So if his point is to play nine conference games then most will drop that P-5 out of conference game. Nothing solved.

Dawg4Life47•4 months

Oklahoma needs all the easy wins they can get