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Topic: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed (and now the other 12, too!)

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2025, 08:45:58 PM »
Wow, Tennessee has got to be overjoyed with this.  UK and Vandy?  WTF?
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2025, 09:38:28 PM »
Florida and Tennessee had to have wanted it this way. No way the SEC just did that. 
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2025, 09:55:52 PM »
We? just weren't elite based on our record the past decade.  So there was no urgency to give us 2 big-boy teams.  Carolina is decent year in and year out, but idk.

To get UK and Vandy.....the Vols kissed the right asses on that one.
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #17 on: September 22, 2025, 10:00:15 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on September 22, 2025, 09:38:28 PM
Florida and Tennessee had to have wanted it this way. No way the SEC just did that.
I guess so.  Maybe I find the game more valuable and interesting than their own administrators do. 
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #18 on: September 22, 2025, 11:28:28 PM »
Shit like this is what makes me not even care about conferences anymore. Similar to OU-Nebraska not playing every year in the Big 12. 
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« Reply #19 on: September 22, 2025, 11:29:51 PM »
Yeah conferences larger than ten were the beginning of the end.  16 and 18 is just flat out ludicrous.  
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #20 on: September 23, 2025, 01:26:04 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 22, 2025, 09:55:52 PM
We? just weren't elite based on our record the past decade.  So there was no urgency to give us 2 big-boy teams.  Carolina is decent year in and year out, but idk.

To get UK and Vandy.....the Vols kissed the right asses on that one.
Correction, it was based on league record the past 4 years.  OU and Texas' records from the Big XII were used.

You know, just half-ass this shit.  
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2025, 04:56:05 AM »
One can criticize the choices easily, but coming up with alternatives gets tough.

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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2025, 08:12:51 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on September 22, 2025, 09:55:52 PM
We? just weren't elite based on our record the past decade.  So there was no urgency to give us 2 big-boy teams.  Carolina is decent year in and year out, but idk.

To get UK and Vandy.....the Vols kissed the right asses on that one.

It certainly looks to be advantageous, and historically relevant, but I wanted Florida. 

I love to hate the Gators, and I’m sure y’all feel the same way about us.  
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2025, 12:22:24 PM »
our rival's not in the league so it was always going to be a mashup. 

arkansas amuses me b/c they think they're better than us. their floor (cellar) is the same as ours as are our ceilings in that neither one of us is ever winning the league unless a "philanthroper" shows up for either school & juices the bejeezes out of the roster. it's a 4 hr drive from my house so for that reason alone i hope to play them forever.

we have no history with atm. they're a fine opp but it's whatev to me. been there once, other than their obv weird chants & such the fans were nice both before & after we won so i have no slights.

as for ou they're a traditional rival in the sense that we've played 90+ times but not really, we win like 1 in 4. there is a tiger sooner peace pipe that we see every once in awhile that i would guess they're rarely bothered to wipe their ***'s with. as for our side of it beating them is a big deal b/c of who they are but i don't otherwise especially hate them. their rivals guy is a doosh - that's about all i got - heck stoops seems like a decent guy albeit arrogant. didn't like lincoln but he's long gone. as an old big 8 competitor & another easy day trip it's as good as we could hope for.
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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2025, 01:29:58 PM »
Quote from: nwms on September 23, 2025, 12:22:24 PM
our rival's not in the league so it was always going to be a mashup.

arkansas amuses me b/c they think they're better than us. their floor (cellar) is the same as ours as are our ceilings in that neither one of us is ever winning the league unless a "philanthroper" shows up for either school & juices the bejeezes out of the roster. it's a 4 hr drive from my house so for that reason alone i hope to play them forever.

we have no history with atm. they're a fine opp but it's whatev to me. been there once, other than their obv weird chants & such the fans were nice both before & after we won so i have no slights.

as for ou they're a traditional rival in the sense that we've played 90+ times but not really, we win like 1 in 4. there is a tiger sooner peace pipe that we see every once in awhile that i would guess they're rarely bothered to wipe their ***'s with. as for our side of it beating them is a big deal b/c of who they are but i don't otherwise especially hate them. their rivals guy is a doosh - that's about all i got - heck stoops seems like a decent guy albeit arrogant. didn't like lincoln but he's long gone. as an old big 8 competitor & another easy day trip it's as good as we could hope for.

Yeah I think the 4-year look-in is made for teams like Missouri and OU that just kind of had some "rivals" slapped onto their schedule.  After 4 years these could be switched up without making too many ripples.

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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2025, 02:40:49 PM »
I really don't think they could have done all that much differently, a nudge here and there, change one and you change something else and it ripples.

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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed
« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2025, 10:04:48 AM »
The 6/6 opponents' schedule is out for all teams now, which will run from 2026-2029.

I couldn't find a concise listing out there for all schools, and it would be pretty lengthy anyway.  Here's the one for Texas:


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Re: SEC 3 Perma-Rivals Revealed (and now the other 12, too!)
« Reply #27 on: September 24, 2025, 10:17:34 AM »
There were bound to be some repeats and the SEC front office warned of such.

Outside of the 3 perma-rivals, for Texas, the 2025-2026 repeats are Florida and Miss State.  But they did manage to keep up with the home/away so nobody has to play an away game twice in a row.

The same can't be said for the perma-rivals.  Since for some idiotic reason they already had Texas A&M and Arkansas either both away, or both home, in 2024/2025, it was inevitable they were going to have to switch one in 2026.  Arkansas is the lucky winner who will have to play in Austin two years in a row.

TX-OU is of course a neutral site game so no issues there.
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