If the SEC winds up with just 13 teams in 2012.
Assuming the SEC is going to a 9 conference game schedule when they get to 14 teams, I would suggest they go ahead and do that by adding ATM to 8 current SEC schedules and designating one of their OOC games as an SEC conference game. There is a precedent for that. In 1964 when GT left the SEC, UGA was left with less than the six conference game minimum in place at the time. UGA played only 5 SEC games from 1964-1967 designating an OOC game as a conference game in order to meet the minimum in each of those years. UGA shares the 1966 SEC championship with Bama by virtue of designating a UNC team, that wound up 2-8, as their sixth conference game.
The four remaining SEC teams would be matched to give all 13 teams a 9 game schedule. Actually the process would start with Arkansas because they are already on the ATM schedule. Then you would take 4 SEC teams that were not scheduled to play each other in 2012 and match them up. Then you would add the remaining 7 to the ATM schedule.
Assuming the SEC is going to a 9 conference game schedule when they get to 14 teams, I would suggest they go ahead and do that by adding ATM to 8 current SEC schedules and designating one of their OOC games as an SEC conference game. There is a precedent for that. In 1964 when GT left the SEC, UGA was left with less than the six conference game minimum in place at the time. UGA played only 5 SEC games from 1964-1967 designating an OOC game as a conference game in order to meet the minimum in each of those years. UGA shares the 1966 SEC championship with Bama by virtue of designating a UNC team, that wound up 2-8, as their sixth conference game.
The four remaining SEC teams would be matched to give all 13 teams a 9 game schedule. Actually the process would start with Arkansas because they are already on the ATM schedule. Then you would take 4 SEC teams that were not scheduled to play each other in 2012 and match them up. Then you would add the remaining 7 to the ATM schedule.
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