An idea to change the SEC football schedule format...

[Uncle Leo]

This article taken from Veazey's blog on the SEC spring meetings.

Basically, he suggests splitting each division into threesomes for scheduling purposes...

Under my plan, each team would rotate its three non-divisional opponents every year.

The same three teams always would be lumped together.

In the East, UT, Georgia and Vanderbilt would form one threesome; Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky would comprise the other.

In the West, LSU, Ole Miss and Arkansas would be in one group; Auburn, Alabama and Mississippi State would be in the other.

UT, Georgia and Vanderbilt would play LSU, Ole Miss and Arkansas one year; and Auburn, Alabama and Mississippi State the next year. Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky would play the alternate threesome from the West each year.

I would not be opposed to something like this. But we don't exactly have a traditional annual non-divisional "rivalry".

Thoughts?

 

[dickiedawg]

Those fans hate each other more than the rest of the conference hates each of them.

Edit: After reading the article, I see that it was written by a UT fan, so there goes that. Calling for fairness in scheduling is fine, but this doesn't accomplish that. If they went to a more NFL-type scheduling based on the previous year's finish, that's a little fairer. Maybe lump the teams that finished 1, 3 and 5 together and the teams that finished 2,4 and 6 together. That's better than just arbitrarily naming six good schools and six bad schools, but the schedules won't necessarily be more even.

 

[FlabLoser]

Home & home needs to be done as quickly as possible. When you want revenge on a team, you'd have to wait 2 more years to get it.

If we're gonna to division divisions, let's get out both home & home games and then switch. So play your division division twice, once at your place and once at their's before switching to the other division division.

 

[Temple of the Dawg]

Dumbest. Idea. EVER.</p>

You never will achieve true balance unless you go to an 11-game league schedule.

Can he really be this stupid?

Here is his whole point in writing the article.
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UT also would benefit from altering the conference schedule.</p>

Alabama will only get better under coach Nick Saban, and Florida already has won one national championship under coach Urban Meyer. Under the current scheduling format, UT must play both teams every year. Things will get even tougher when LSU, which is averaging 9.8 wins a year this decade, rotates onto the schedule.</p>

In UT's dreadful 5-6 season of 2005, you could fill a book with all that went wrong.</p>

One chapter should include the schedule, which included road games at LSU, Florida and Alabama. UT was fortunate to win one of those games.</p>

 

[8dog]

Auburn/Georgia. And as someone pointed out, Bama/TN wouldn't play every year.

Bad idea.

 

[vhdawg]

...to go to a nine-game SEC schedule than to go along with this Big XII schedule ripoff. At least with a nine-game schedule, it takes a little of the CUSA/WAC/Sun Belt scheduling demand away and will save everybody money.