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Retaining permanent partners in SEC football entered the week as the clubhouse leader. While that may still end up happening, the dialogue is now wide open again about how to schedule for 2013 and beyond. SEC coaches and athletics directors met today in what SEC Commissioner Mike Slive described as a "vigorous discussion." The answer this week -- if there is one -- wouldn't come until the presidents vote on Friday.
For a while, the 6-1-1 model has been the favorite largely because it protects the traditional Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia rivalries and very few people want nine SEC games. The 6-1-1 means each team would play six divisional games, one permanent cross-divisional game, and one rotating cross-divisional game.
But nothing's simple with SEC football scheduling. Discussions resurfaced today about using a 6-2 model with no permanent partners, switching to nine SEC games or even allowing only some teams to have permanent partners. The talks left many participants dazed at where this is headed.
"It's kind of all over the place," Georgia Athletics Director Greg McGarity said. "Everybody kind of had a different agenda so that's where the vote comes in."
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For a while, the 6-1-1 model has been the favorite largely because it protects the traditional Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia rivalries and very few people want nine SEC games. The 6-1-1 means each team would play six divisional games, one permanent cross-divisional game, and one rotating cross-divisional game.
But nothing's simple with SEC football scheduling. Discussions resurfaced today about using a 6-2 model with no permanent partners, switching to nine SEC games or even allowing only some teams to have permanent partners. The talks left many participants dazed at where this is headed.
"It's kind of all over the place," Georgia Athletics Director Greg McGarity said. "Everybody kind of had a different agenda so that's where the vote comes in."
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