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My 2 division 3 year SEC schedule

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by Gatorrick22, Jul 25, 2025.

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  1. Aug 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM #41
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    I posted the 3-year cycle in the first 3 posts... tell me in which year that's possible.
     
  2. Aug 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM #42
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    Year 1, 7-0 vs east, lose to LSU an UTx. UGA 6-1 vs east, beats Auburn and whoever.
     
  3. Aug 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM #43
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    The same (old) win/loss rules apply within your division. You have to beat more teams in your division than any other team.

    If you look at the home division schedules as the one that counts the most, you can never have that dilemma. The best team in the West will still play the best team in the East.
     
  4. Aug 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM #44
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    The old rules with divisions was overall sec record, no delineation of specifically vs division record. If only division record matters go to a 7 game conference schedule because those other games are in no meaningful way different than any out of conference game.
     
  5. Aug 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM #45
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    THAT IS MY POINT... My schedule is a 2 Division SEC Conference with a Championship Game. That works with the same exact rules and format as before... before Sankey killed the 2 division system. The only thing that changes (the only difference) is the teams (four teams at a time) in each division rotate from division to division. And they return in the 4th year making it a 3-year rotation.

    I made an 8 and 9 SEC schedule game schedule for the Gators in all 3 years.

    And someone mentioned if we had, say... the west division champs with 3 losses, and they play the winner of the east that is undefeated. There could still be 2 or 3 other team in the east that are better than the west champs... but how often did that scenario every play out when we had 2 divisions in the past? Regardless of the divisions I don't remember if that ever happened.
     
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  6. Aug 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM #46
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    It's really not worth the debate but with divisions every SEC game counted, not just vs division, so your proposal is different.

    As far as the scenario... 95, 96, 98, 01, 02, 03, 05, 10 all had 2 teams in 1 division with better conference record than the best from the other. There was a stetch where the East was considered better, then with the rise of Saban Bama that flipped and the West was clearly better for a decade + until Kirby. Just look at which division the national champ came from starting in 92.

    West Bama 92
    East UF 96
    East UT 98
    West LSU 03
    East UF 06
    West LSU 07
    East UF 08
    West Bama 09
    West AU 10
    West Bama 11
    West Bama 12
    West Bama 15
    West Bama 17
    West LSU 19
    West Bama 20
    East UGA 21
    East UGA 22

    I like your setup, but I just don't think the SECCG is goal #1 anymore. Even more so with a 9 game conference schedule. Up until last year you pretty much had to be in and win that game to be in position to win the NC. OSU wasn't even in the Big Ten title game. They got a week off to get healthy and prep and took UT behind the woodshed.
     
  7. Aug 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM #47
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    Changing the 2 cross division opponents every year would create a system where each team played every SEC team every 4 years alternating home fields.

    Personally, I think the SEC Champ game would be only slightly less ridiculous with a pod system as with what currently exists. However, ice won't melt in hell before the SEC would get rid of it with the money it makes for them.
     
  8. Aug 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM #48
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    It was the overall SEC record that counted up until last year. I can't think of a compelling reason to change it.

    The SEC will never get rid of the championship game unless something dire is at stake. It makes too much money. Any SEC championship scenario that would eliminate it is too fantastical.
     
  9. Aug 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM #49
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    This is the right answer. It would mean some long standing rivalries might go by the wayside but that is the price of progress.
    SEC EAST
    UF
    UGAG
    SCar
    Tenn
    KY
    Vandy
    Auburn
    Miss State

    SEC West
    Bama
    Tx
    Okie
    Ole Piss
    LSU
    Arky
    Missou
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  10. Aug 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM #50
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    Nah, switch Bama and Ms St and then virtually no long-standing rivalries go away (No, I don't count Miss St as a rivalry with Bama since they've only managed 18 wins in 107 tries). LSU has a longer, but only slightly less lopsided rivalry with MSU than Bama does. Bama has played LSU annually since 1964, which would be the longest standing annual rivalry that would be lost.
     
  11. Aug 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM #51
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    That works too and the only reason I put Miss St. in the east is I was thinking the East would be too tough relative to the west.
     
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