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I sure hope so!

Tells me ESPN is ready to open up the wallet, too.

I honestly don't care about the 9th game that much.  In fact, I like the late season non-conference game.  And yes, I know it's always a patsy, but I love going to football games in the fall and I can usually get tickets pretty cheap. 

I hear ya.  I don't really like the late season pastry games and would be delighted to see them go away.

Y'all will likely still have some fall games against teams like Miss State or Kentucky or South Carolina or Vanderbilt where it'll be easy to get tickets.

So now that we know the plan is to go to 9 conference games, let the speculation begin on what it will look like!  

My preferred format is the 3-6-6.  Three perma-rivals, and then 6 of the other 12 schools for 2 years, and then the other 6 of the 12 for two years.  Every 4 years you'd get to play every single SEC team both home and away.  Mega-conference are dumb but if we must have them, then I think this is a decent way to schedule it.

So the, IF that were to be the format, what are the three perma-rivals for each school?  I know we've already done this once, it might be buried back in the beginnings of this thread?

For Texas, my choices would obviously be OU, A&M, and Arkansas.