| NEWS When we go to 16 (teams) that possibility (eliminating divisions) is front and center for the SEC.”
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50+yeartidefan
Touchdown Club
Talking permanent 4?
Tennessee
AU
Ole ms
Msu
Would make sense...2 historical rivals.... for sure
But nothing making sense is important anymore
For the SEC: (if keeping divisions)
*East-
Florida
Georgia
SC
Vandy
*Central-
Bama
barn
Ole Miss
MSU
*West-
Ark
Texas
Tex a/m
Okla
*North-
UK
UT
Mizzou
Okla
*East-
Florida
Georgia
SC
Vandy
*Central-
Bama
barn
Ole Miss
MSU
*West-
Ark
Texas
Tex a/m
Okla
*North-
UK
UT
Mizzou
Okla
rocknthefreeworld
Century Club
Pods are the only way to keep rivals in tact. Geographic makes sense.
A&M - Arkansas - Texas - Oklahoma
Missouri - LSU - Ole Miss - Miss State
Bama - Auburn - Vandy - UK
UT - UGA - USC - UF
Each team gets one cross-pod permanent rival in an 8 game SEC season and plays one full Pod. Bama-LSU is a given. If we go to 9 games then each gets 2 or they get 1 and rotate the other game. If we go to 10 games then every team plays home and home against everyone else at least once every 4 years.
WeAllBleedCrimson has the other split I have seen.
A&M - Arkansas - Texas - Oklahoma
Missouri - LSU - Ole Miss - Miss State
Bama - Auburn - Vandy - UK
UT - UGA - USC - UF
Each team gets one cross-pod permanent rival in an 8 game SEC season and plays one full Pod. Bama-LSU is a given. If we go to 9 games then each gets 2 or they get 1 and rotate the other game. If we go to 10 games then every team plays home and home against everyone else at least once every 4 years.
WeAllBleedCrimson has the other split I have seen.
rocknthefreeworld
Century Club
You have Oklahoma twice and no LSU
bamascw
Extra Point Club
how the hell did I completely miss the 4 team division???? Ever since they announced Texas and Oklahoma coming I’ve been trying to figure out how the hell we’re going to have two 8 divisions.
Four sets of four teams makes perfect sense and also if you think about it, it would be another trend setting move for the SEC, no other conference has four sets of four but you give it a few years and you can bet your ass you’ll see it pop up.
I will say that I would like to see at least one extra conference game come out of this, I know it would make the schedule really difficult but I would like to see nine conference games per season.
Who knows how they will sort things out with four divisions, you could almost draw it up six or seven different ways and talk yourself into it making complete sense so I will leave that to the people making the big money.
On a completely unrelated topic, we took the boat out yesterday and I lost my favorite Alabama visor, which is currently somewhere floating around in the Atlantic ocean, I’m in a state of mourning.
Four sets of four teams makes perfect sense and also if you think about it, it would be another trend setting move for the SEC, no other conference has four sets of four but you give it a few years and you can bet your ass you’ll see it pop up.
I will say that I would like to see at least one extra conference game come out of this, I know it would make the schedule really difficult but I would like to see nine conference games per season.
Who knows how they will sort things out with four divisions, you could almost draw it up six or seven different ways and talk yourself into it making complete sense so I will leave that to the people making the big money.
On a completely unrelated topic, we took the boat out yesterday and I lost my favorite Alabama visor, which is currently somewhere floating around in the Atlantic ocean, I’m in a state of mourning.
Do we have some W's and NC's with that visor? If so you better go back and find that bad boy otherwise if we lose it is your faultOn a completely unrelated topic, we took the boat out yesterday and I lost my favorite Alabama visor, which is currently somewhere floating around in the Atlantic ocean, I’m in a state of mourning.
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I don't care how the pie is sliced, what I want to see is Alabama playing other SEC schools on a more regular basis. There is no reason to wait 10-12 years to play another school not in your division. With the 4 groups, you could play the 3 others in your area every year and then rotate the other games to play a home and away schedule every 3-5 years. Just my opinion.
OldPlayer
Bama Club
If you eliminate divisions altogether, like some conferences have, you’ll play all other teams more frequently. By eliminating divisions, you put the top two conference win percentage teams into the championship.
The pods, I guess, give you three permanent opponents, and you could add one more perm from outside your pod. That would give you four perms - for us, I'd include the MS teams and aubrun in the pod, and then UT outside. If we put UT in the same pod with us and aubrun, we'd have to throw in Vandy and the whining would be crazy.
Five non-perm games with the remaining eleven teams would provide a cycling through instead of having six games against the remaining twelve, which would keep the schedules the same.
That would then leave the west pod with Arky, aTm, TX and the dirt burglars. Throw in Mizzou with UT, Vandy and LSU (a gift to the cord dogs), and then put GA-FL-SC-KY.
OldPlayer
Bama Club
rocknthefreeworld
Century Club
The bigger thing is home-and-home with all of them at least once every 4 years.
Yep, I hope that's what we end up with. Lot of stadiums I'd still like to go see