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.
Yeah, until they add FSU and Clemson. Then we start all over with the schedule. I got a feeling that since were moving to NFL lite, we’re instead going to instead have divisions, like NFC east and AFC south. The SEC hasn’t cared about all schools playing all the other schools for at least the 13 years we’ve been here. Georgia has never been to Kyle. We’ve only been to Samford once. In the same time span we’ve played Kentucky, Tenn, Florida, and Vanderbilt multiple times.
There’s pretty much 4-5 teams that control the schedule of the SEC. Tenn/ Alabama, UGA/ Fla, Auburn/ Bama. Basically the old guard. OM, MSU, Kentucky, Ark, Mizzou, USC, A&M…all along for the ride. LSU is somewhere in between because they’ve basically become a 21BB. OU and Texas are true blue bloods who really only care about playing each other.
The biggest roadblock to scheduling in the divisional sense is you can’t do it with 18 teams unless you go to a 6 team pod, or conference. That actually makes the most sense.
I would prefer the west pod be A&M, Texas, OU, Ark, LSU, and Miss state.
The rest of the pods, you just split them up however. I wouldn’t mind playing Auburn and OM regularly. Eliminate the CCG, you no longer need it with CFP.
