📡 Administrators and coaches feel the SEC will land at 9 conference games with a 3-6 format when Texas and Oklahoma join

[MunchyOs]

How are they going to get two teams into the SECCG with 4 pods? I say just stick with the divisions. Send the barn to the east and put both Oklahoma and Texas in the West. Add one more SEC game. Boom. Done.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

How are they going to get two teams into the SECCG with 4 pods? I say just stick with the divisions. Send the barn to the east and put both Oklahoma and Texas in the West. Add one more SEC game. Boom. Done.

It would take 8 years to home and home the other division. And Auburn being in a different one than Bama never happens.

EDIT: I have to add that getting 2 teams to the SECCG with pods is easy. You have a rotating pod schedule.

Play every team home and home in 4 years. Years 1 and 2 Pods A and B are half of the SEC and play each other completely, and C and D are half and play each other completely. Years 3 and 4 Pods A and C are half the SEC and play each other anmd B and D are half and play each other.

Bama in Pod A

Year 1 - Bama plays POD A (3 games), POD B (4 games), Teams 1 and 2 in POD D - 5 home games
Year 2 - Bama plays POD A (3 games), POD B (4 games), Teams 1 and 2 in POD D - 4 home games
Year 3 - Bama plays POD A (3 games), POD C (4 games), Teams 3 and 4 in POD D - 5 home games
Year 4 - Bama plays POD A (3 games), POD C (4 games), Teams 3 and 4 in POD D - 4 home games

 

[TerryP]

Another nail in the coffin of college football as we know it today.

The tiebreakers, as mentioned, will have to come into play. And, it'll bring us right back to where we were a few years ago with teams running up the score because those tiebreakers will break down to common opponents at some point.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Works great until you have 4 who have not played each other all go undefeated. Poll ranking or flipping coins are horrible ways to decide who plays in a conference championship but that will happen at some point.

When have u seen more than 2 go undefeated. Or 1 in conference for that mattrr

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

When have u seen more than 2 go undefeated. Or 1 in conference for that mattrr

Fine. I undefeated and 2-3 with only 1 loss (or all with 2 losses) who haven't played each other or have a lot in common.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Fine. I undefeated and 2-3 with only 1 loss (or all with 2 losses) who haven't played each other or have a lot in common.

Ok. Or a bunch with 1 loss. I see that.
But nothing is perfect.

And like someone said above. Every one wont be happy with what they do.

 

[Davestwin]

I am not sure Bama is going to get LSU and Tennessee. We may be lucky to get either of them.

To us old timers losing Tennessee is unacceptable. It’s right under Auburn in the hierarchy of important rivals for us. College football is changing too much too fast … and not in a good direction. If they rip out the last vestiges of storied traditions, they’ll lose a lot of fans like myself. At one time, I was a huge NFL fan who used to spend all day Sunday watching their games. That is until it became a soapbox for anti-American gyrations. Since that time, I only watch the Falcons occasionally and a couple of other games a season. I’m a rabid Bama fan who will probably always watch their games but that will be it. An NFL-lite league doesn’t much appeal to me.

 

[mando]

To us old timers losing Tennessee is unacceptable. It’s right under Auburn in the hierarchy of important rivals for us. College football is changing too much too fast … and not in a good direction. If they rip out the last vestiges of storied traditions, they’ll lose a lot of fans like myself. At one time, I was a huge NFL fan who used to spend all day Sunday watching their games. That is until it became a soapbox for anti-American gyrations. Since that time, I only watch the Falcons occasionally and a couple of other games a season. I’m a rabid Bama fan who will probably always watch their games but that will be it. An NFL-lite league doesn’t much appeal to me.

Fully agree with this with one exception, screw the Barn. I have no respect for them so I would lose no sleep not playing them. Want happen because apparently I am the only one that thinks this way.

 

[TerryP]

Want happen because apparently I am the only one that thinks this way.

I would bathe in the tears of SEC rivals with Bama in a pod with Vandy, Ole Miss, and State.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Fully agree with this with one exception, screw the Barn. I have no respect for them so I would lose no sleep not playing them. Want happen because apparently I am the only one that thinks this way.

I don't want to play them every year either. I always tell people that Auburn wins are seen as something spectacular and even just coming close is a win for them. Bama wins are seen as expected and losses as the end of an era and usually happen due to fluke BS that winds up replayed over and over. Basically, it helps none to play them and can only hurt Bama.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

To us old timers losing Tennessee is unacceptable. It’s right under Auburn in the hierarchy of important rivals for us.

I put it above Auburn myself, but I think Auburn is protected while Tennessee is not. I also think AU-UGA is unprotected because AU-Bama is safe. I do think there is a possibility Bama gets Auburn, Tennessee, and State but no way we get Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I put it above Auburn myself, but I think Auburn is protected while Tennessee is not. I also think AU-UGA is unprotected because AU-Bama is safe. I do think there is a possibility Bama gets Auburn, Tennessee, and State but no way we get Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee.

The "gods" that run things care little about rivals...just game on tv people will watch....

Look for some unbelievable s@@t to happen