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So....once again a new team enters the conference and Birmingham is gonna try to manufacture a season-ending rivalry for LSU with them.  Whatever.  Doesn't this basically admit that LSU/Texas A&M was contrived and stupid?  And didn't that basically admit LSU/Arkansas was contrived and stupid?

Dumb as it is, the reason it keeps happening is because most other teams have legit rivalries that must fall on the final weekend.  Ole Miss is the closest thing to making sense for us, but they have the Egg Bowl with Clanga on the final week, and traditionally that game is supposed to be played at Halloween, although the conference hasn't accommodated that in years and years either.  Since OU's RRR with UT is middle of the season and I guess they're losing Bedlam (why?  Bring it back ooc), LSU sort of has to get stuck with them. 

Barring Ole Miss, I'd like Florida at the end of the year, but they have FSU.  Basically anyone we would want to put there has an in-state game to play.  Depending on what Florida looks like, LSU has a pretty backloaded schedule in-conference, ending with Alabama, Florida, and OU all in the final month.  

Elsewhere, Texas/A&M will resume in College Station this year, and the Aggies can finally quit pretending they hate us and that tigers have anything to saw off.  

We might as well schedule a bad FCS school, given how it's gone for the Bees the last couple of times we played them.  

I really enjoyed the A&M/ LSU tilts at the end of the year. I know and work with a lot of LSU alum. Yeah, we didn’t really do our part to liven the rivalry up, but damn we just got started. 

I also think some of these middling East teams that have benefited over the last decade from the division being meh are looking at some harsh realities.  Take South Carolina for example.  They keep Kentucky, Vandy, and Missouri, which is standard fare for them, but Missouri is no dog.  And losing Florida isn't as beneficial as it once was.  Instead they play LSU, Alabama, Oklahoma, and A&M....and that's on top of keeping Klempson at the end of the year. 

South Carolina could hold serve in average team quality but have a worse average record with schedules like this.  

I think so. 

Alabama's is relatively fluffy.  I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.  

SEC loves them some Texas.....already.

They drew the inaugural cakewalk.

Oklahoma is probably a pastry.