Offseason Survey: IF the SEC goes to a 9-game 3-6-6 format, which annual football opponents?

We need to go back to the Two Divisions and add one of Texas or Oklahoma to the east. Problem solved. Easy-peasy.

Why are we needlessly complicating an easy situation? It's a simple fix, and we get to keep all of our rivals is we trade two teams from one division to the other every year.

Of course, it makes more sense to make them rivals like UGA and Florida would trade divisions for one year with Bama and Auburn or Ole Miss and MSU from one division to the other since the two teams in the same division are actual rivals that must play each other every year.

Believe me... if you are shown a graphical representation of what I mean, it will make far too much sense not to implement.

 

Georgia, LSU, Tenn.

Almost went Auburn instead of Vols. For old-time's sake.

 

Didn't happen in Year 1.

 

Look, I'm old - saw probably every home game in the 1980s: and Auburn seemed to be always a fun, competitive game. I miss Florida-Auburn being an every year thing.

 

Go back to the two divisions and play the 8 game SEC schedule so we have 3 or 4 teams eligible for the playoffs. There is no need to add more teams to the playoff system. 12 teams is more than enough already.

I think maybe add one more team to the East (8 teams on each side) and go with the four team swap from east to west every year and that gives us a 3-year rotation. That rotation is even better than the two teams swap I suggested earlier. Then all we have to figure out is the 8th SEC game which is the easy part.

 

Don’t add nobody.
Shitcan Missouri and Oklahoma

 

Because the goal is money not football quality. They don't care about fans of universities or the sport they care about fans of points with above average disposable income.

It's the NBA model. Eliminate as much defense as possible and make the score board have big numbers.

Ugg like many point. Ugg no like defense. Ugg not sure what a screen pass is. Ugg buy $12 beer. Ugg pay $90 for uniform of kid who will transfer next week.

 

The scuttlebutt now is that the SEC and Big Whatever are pushing for a 16 team play-off, maybe even starting this year, with 4 teams guaranteed for both, 2 from the Big 12 and ACC, 1 from the G5 and 3 "at large" teams (meaning Notre Dame and 2 others). LOL!

 

That wasn't 16 teams that was 12

 

Ugg can kick?

 

Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee. Tennessee with the slight edge over LSU.

 

Every time we play auburn, we pick up right where we left off as if we hadn't skipped a beat.

Not sure if that's good or bad-guess it depends on whether you like your schedule spicy or mild, but make no mistake--1st meeting, and they're right back at the top of our rivals list, vying for most hated.

(PS--give me spicy...but hold off on the putrid rot (ie-take FSU off!))

 

3 separate answers for me.

1. Pure entertainment and/or hatred: UGA, Tenn, LSU

2. Balanced power and location consideration across entire SEC (my vote):
a. UF, UGA, UK, SC (UGA a no brainer, SC has been a solid rivalry IMO and geographically makes sense. UK cause they gotta go somewhere)
b. AL, Aub, Tenn, Vandy (AL v Tenn and AL v Aub are unbreakable IMO, Vandy v UT makes sense too)
c. Mizz, Ole Miss, MSU, LSU (most odd couple group, just kinda the leftovers)
d. Ark, Tx, aTm, OK (SW conference + Red river, nuff said)

3. SEC BS: @aTm (always a road game), UGA (in ATL), LSU (all away games are night games by decree)

Jokes aside, I think the #2 would be a pretty good split.

 

There will be kids born and have got their drivers license in the time span UF last played at Auburn (Oct 2011 and earliest would be 2026). I think you underestimate a whole generation basically not knowing what those games were like.

 

How do you reconcile targeting with that theory? Ugg that appeared to be forcible contact with the crown of the helmet, good call moving picture box zebras. Ugg now he miss first half next week vs hated tribe, that's poop.

 

The SEC should NOT need any other conference to get our way, the problem is no one knows what our commissioner is thinking. He is NOT transparent enough for my liking. Remember the pods... that the only options we thought we had... and then they killed that idea, and tossed the baby out with the baby water, by killing divisions...

The conference of two divisions was an SEC invention, and it served us well TO LEAD FROM THE FRONT as a conference leader in college football.

We invented the SEC Championship game, because no other conference had two divisions until our late great commissioner thought if it and implemented it. Now we're being led by someone that would rather collaborate behind closed doors with a lesser conference commissioner, to do who knows what, "leading" from behind closed doors.

We need to go back to what made us great and that means playing two divisions and in that design the best teams sometimes do NOT play each other every year AND THAT IS A GOOD THING, because it leaves us with more potential teams to be considered for the 12 team playoff system. We had the perfect set-up then someone went and gave us out of that perfect set-up. Why? We had the money... we had the perfect system... the money... the respect... the uniqueness. Why did we leave our lead role in college football? Because we got the WRONG COMMISSIONER.

It's a simple as that. For years Bama and UGS/Gators would miss playing each other and that was fine because now more than ever we had (with two divisions) at least three teams in the 12 team playoff, because only one of UGA or the Gators good enough to make SECCG. In that schedule if UGA and the Gators were undefeated... until we played one team could actually MISS the SECCG with only one loss.

Then an undefeated UGA would play Bama and in that scenario all three teams would make the playoffs, but a certain coach wanted to play UGA and The Gators more often, which to me was okay... until I found out we'd have to scrap the two division set-up in the middle of the night and go to some contrived BS system that gave the Gators all the fun games... away games.

The point is, we need to go back to the two division system and just make both sides with 8 teams. That would leave each side with one permanent cross division rival game every year in an 8 game conference schedule.

I say slit the divisions into four teams groups and alternate four teams from each side (four team from the west and four teams from the east swap places) every year (a three-year cycle) and we all player each other every three years at worst.

It's better than the two teams swap that I originally thought about. That is a five-year rotational cycle, and that takes too long.

So two divisions... make them four team quads and rotate two four team quads every year from east to west and by year three we start from the beginning again.

That is the best system, and it keeps the teams in our entire conference playing each other in a three-year cycle. And best of all... we get to keep the divisions and the VERY MEANINGFUL SECCG. Winner!!!!

 

Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri.
I pick mizz because I live close to there and I could go see the Gators play every other year.

 

Just a few short years ago they were in the swamp and it was a great one. One of the best games ive been to.

 

Auburn is closest to UF and our oldest SEC rival, killed by expansion and TV preference for Bama/AU and UGA/AU. I’d like it to come back, although the regular back-to-back with UGA wasn’t particularly pleasant.
I also said Tennessee based on SEC East history (but I probably wouldn’t really miss it).
When Missouri came in, I feared an end-of-season permanent matchup with them; until then, we’d ended with Kentucky for a couple of decades and November there was unpleasant enough. With so many longstanding rivalries and traditional dates in the SEC now, they might well freeze some scheduling like that (pun intended.)

 

I'm for Georgia Tennessee an Auburn, but everybody does deserve one bottom feeder free win every year. I guess if we're trying to be fair with schedule. I just have no interest in crappy games