🏈 Alabama rotating opponents for 2014-2025

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[planomateo]

In a more consumable format.

2014 vs UF
2015 @ UGA
2016 vs UK
2017 @ VU
2018 vs Mizzou
2019 @ SC
2020 vs UGA
2021 @ UF
2022 vs VU
2023 @ UK
2024 vs SC
2025 @ Mizzou

 

[rick4bama]

I miss something here? What happening to the home-home games?

 

[TerryP]

@rick4bama Missed something, Rickey. As in the last two years!

The last home and home (as in back to back years) ended in 2011 with A&M and Mizzou joining the conference.

 

[rick4bama]

OK Thanks for that information.

 

[TerryP]

BTW, if this doesn't make 13 coaches in the SEC deserve criticism for not wanting a nine game schedule...

 

[BamaFan334]

I feel like an idiot too, because I was curious where the home and home went too. I guess I'll be in Athens next year to finally show we are still more than just five yards better than Georgia.

 

[planomateo]

Can't help but wonder if others fans realized how important going to a 9 game conference schedule was. We either give up the cross divisional rivals and stick with 8 or go to 9 keeping the cross divisional rivals.

I wanted a 9 game conference schedule and I still think we get there, possibly as early as 2017...but doubt it. Wondering if fans giving feedback to the schools will help...

 

[rick4bama]

How important is a nine games?

 

[252BAMA]

SEC will go to a nine game conference schedule the year after a one or two loss champion doesn't get in the CFP because the committee deems their 8 game schedule and weak OOC schedules as unworthy.

 

[TerryP]

How important is a nine games?

Purely my point of view on this—

The Tide played in Gainesville in 2011. We won't have another game there until 2021. To put that in a little perspective Jon Solomon pointed out yesterday there will be three presidential elections and five Olympics between those dates. Or, let's look at this from another perspective (H/T to Ivan Maisel.) Mizzou and A&M, from the Big12, right, will play each other this fall. If you have a kid in the 1st grade this year they'll be starting college when Mizzou visits A&M again.

Several months ago we had a pretty in depth conversation about the implications of what this type of schedule would mean and I kept pointing out how much I didn't like having trips like these happen over a decade apart. I think it was @252BAMA that broke down the differences between a 6-1-2 format versus the 6-1-1.

How important is a ninth game? Here's my point...it's basically taken the SEC and divided it up into two conferences.

(A thought to chew on...we schedule a neutral site game with Va Tech again and we'll have ended up playing them more often than six of the seven teams in the East.)

 

[252BAMA]

How important is a nine games?

If the SEC would be proactive rather than reactive, they would not lose that spot in the CFP because of a 8 game schedule.

 

[MunchyOs]

Not liking this at all. I don't want to wait all the way to the end of the decade to play USCe again. Unless they win the East in a year when we win the West, then this means that 9 years will have passed between games with them. Too long. Not to mention, Spurrier won't still be there in 2019. So, I will be pulling for them to win the East every season.

 

[TerryP]

If the SEC would be proactive rather than reactive, they would not lose that spot in the CFP because of a 8 game schedule.

You're suggesting a move, calling it proactive, for something that may not happen.

I'm all for nine games in conference play. But, doing it in fear of losing a spot for a second team? Reactionary, is it not? A reaction based on fear isn't something I'm in favor of especially considering most of those suggesting a second SEC team would be excluded do it with reasoning that seems to always consist of "the SEC bias."

BTW, as a Bama fan, the first time we may have to worry about this is 2016. We don't know what the schedule will look like three seasons from now.

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

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One more time, and with emphasis, the 6-1-1 scheduling format the SEC has settled on going forward stinks. If the league's not going to play nine conference games (and it should), then the only sensible way to make eight conference games work is to play six divisional foes and two rotating cross-divisional foes -- a 6-0-2 format -- and punt the old 6-1-1 format for good. A conference really isn't a conference when you go eight years without playing a team that's supposed to be in your conference.

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[riz]

I think we should expand the conference more. Play each other even less. Crown a real champion. But we can't forget the Catamounts or Moccasins, though.

 

[252BAMA]

Purely my point of view on this—

The Tide played in Gainesville in 2011. We won't have another game there until 2021. To put that in a little perspective Jon Solomon pointed out yesterday there will be three presidential elections and five Olympics between those dates. Or, let's look at this from another perspective (H/T to Ivan Maisel.) Mizzou and A&M, from the Big12, right, will play each other this fall. If you have a kid in the 1st grade this year they'll be starting college when Mizzou visits A&M again.

Several months ago we had a pretty in depth conversation about the implications of what this type of schedule would mean and I kept pointing out how much I didn't like having trips like these happen over a decade apart. I think it was @252BAMA that broke down the differences between a 6-1-2 format versus the 6-1-1.

How important is a ninth game? Here's my point...it's basically taken the SEC and divided it up into two conferences.

(A thought to chew on...we schedule a neutral site game with Va Tech again and we'll have ended up playing them more often than six of the seven teams in the East.)

With the CFP, the SEC would be wise to split into two conferences. Will be the ONLY way they will EVER get two teams in it.

 

[psychojoe]

Those SEC schools that do not have a traditional OOC opponent (USCe, Florida) will undoubtedly play some of their OOC foes more often than six of the schools in the other division. Once every six years? We will likely play Southern Miss more often than that.

Bring on that 6-1-2.

 

[mhardiman]

Or get two more teams; I don't care if the two teams are ECU and Cincinnati. Four divisions of four 3 divisional + 3 rotational + 2 inter-divisional rival = 8 games. 16 team conference is much easier to schedule than 14 team conference.

 

[TerryP]

Or get two more teams; I don't care if the two teams are ECU and Cincinnati. Four divisions of four 3 divisional + 3 rotational + 2 inter-divisional rival = 8 games. 16 team conference is much easier to schedule than 14 team conference.

I'd have to break that down further, but it seems it leaves a chance of a three way tie for a conference championship game. That tie would likely be broken by some obscure, seldom used, tie-breaker rule (like points scored or the like.)