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Visualization of 2026-2029 "Annual Opponents"
Posted by j_hig on 10/2/25 at 5:57 pm
I couldn't find this online so I had my son help me create it.
Roughly geographic graph showing the announced annual opponents.
Interesting observations that are easier to see with this graph:
- Very few opponents are shared in clusters/pods. This is the opposite of the prior idea to have pods of 4 all play each other. SC and Florida are members of 2 groups of 3 that play each other, and Georgia and Kentucky in one group of 3, but otherwise no school has a pair of annual opponents who are also annual opponents of each other.
- Ole Miss and Mississippi State have the single link between a cluster in the west and the larger cluster in the east with Ole Miss being on the West side.
- For the most part, the opponents are set up to nearby teams which is of course intuitive that they would be rivals and also that it cuts down on travel.
Graph creation source credit to:
LINK
Roughly geographic graph showing the announced annual opponents.
Interesting observations that are easier to see with this graph:
- Very few opponents are shared in clusters/pods. This is the opposite of the prior idea to have pods of 4 all play each other. SC and Florida are members of 2 groups of 3 that play each other, and Georgia and Kentucky in one group of 3, but otherwise no school has a pair of annual opponents who are also annual opponents of each other.
- Ole Miss and Mississippi State have the single link between a cluster in the west and the larger cluster in the east with Ole Miss being on the West side.
- For the most part, the opponents are set up to nearby teams which is of course intuitive that they would be rivals and also that it cuts down on travel.
Graph creation source credit to:
LINK
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