Our 3 permanent opponents
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I don't follow. How over a nine games schedule with the effort to balance overall schedule strengths would the outcome ever not look poor for UK given our history of (well) below average records. What three perm opponents would you give UK & our overall SEC strength of schedule be at/near the conference average? Imo, UK has no one to blame for tough schedules other than ourselves due to our refusal to have at least average SEC quality teams.
I didn't say anything about being surprised. The SEC always screws UK whenever possible. UK Vandy should have been a lock though. Vandy and Mizzou both make sense geographically and competitively. It would have been a logical expectation to have gotten at least one of them.
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Like others I was expecting 2 out of the 3,the SEC just dropped
the hammer on the Cats.
the hammer on the Cats.
Here you go …
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SEC report reveals each school’s annual conference opponents for next four years
The Southeastern Conference is preparing for a major scheduling shift, and Tuesday night will mark the public unveiling. In a primetime special on ESPN2 and SEC
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KY & Miss ST are thr two pansies in the SEC now. We and Miss ST are used to weaken other teams schedule. This is the results Stoop's contract. Stoops has retired on the job and there is zero that can be done because Mitch Barnhart nailed our *** to the barn. No pun intended, with Stoop's buyout. Sad just Sad.
What I heard on the SEC Now reveal show tonight is that the 9 games schedule is to (further) beef up strength of schedule resumes for the playoff committee since that committee says SOS will be key to who gets in. That weaker SEC teams get hurt by that is immaterial. No more 3 OOC pansies on the schedule. That people want to cry how this setup hurts UK, just field better teams. Vandy is doing it. MO is doing it. Tough luck Mitch. Suck it up & get serious. OR, give up & give extraordinary amounts of NIL $ to other sports you favor.
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Seems to be a ridiculous reach to try to correlate the SEC schedule decision with our coach's contract. Do you truly believe there has been a point in time when the league would have given us more advantageous regular SEC opponents? Honestly given the current state of these 3 teams we can be competitive with all three if we can just get back to where we were for several straight seasons not so long ago. I know our UT history is horrible but the talent gap is not as far apart as it has so often been over the years. UF is definitely a sleeping giant but we have played them pretty well for awhile.
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So does this mean you also believe Stoop's contract was a major discussion at the SEC meeting and ultimately decided our fate as far as schedule is concerned? I stated my choice was Vandy, Ark., Mizzou as those are the only three that we actually have successful records against. I also said I knew that was just a pipedream with no actual chance of happening.
Laughing at the predictability of this screw job. I don’t think the SEC thought one iota of anything going on at UK before inking the 3 opponents in.
Uk has lost the last 3 to SC, though being favored in a couple of them. The won they missed a couple FGs and lost by 3. Before that they beat them 7 of 8 times. SC isn’t a juggernaut that UK can’t beat. They are no better a team than Mizzou. The only team on the list that might should be different is UF. In the end it doesn’t matter. They have to play 6 of the other 12 each season.
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Laughing at the predictability of this screw job. I don’t think the SEC thought one iota of anything going on at UK before inking the 3 opponents in.
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We are in agreement then. It appeared you were laughing at my post initially.
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I never said SC was a juggernaut. We are 14-21-1 against them though and that is by far our best record against any of the three. To suggest that who your three "permanent" annual opponents are doesn't matter is kind of silly.
It should've been vandy instead of SC or FL. Doesn't much matter though right now because vandy is better than either.
However over the course of history we're much closer to vandy as a program and much closer geographically.
It’s never going to be perfect. I will say getting Florida is a head scratcher. I thought we would get Tennessee, Vandy, and Mizzou. Tennessee is our rival, so that was a lock.
Since Mizzou has been in the league, it’s been a good a good rivalry.
Vandy is defi on the rise, and since they’re the second closest geographical opponent, I thought they would be the third opponent.
Florida makes zero sense. But, again, it’s not possible to make everyone happy.
Since Mizzou has been in the league, it’s been a good a good rivalry.
Vandy is defi on the rise, and since they’re the second closest geographical opponent, I thought they would be the third opponent.
Florida makes zero sense. But, again, it’s not possible to make everyone happy.
Kentucky 3 Opponents have been revealed … they are Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee
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SEC football schedule: League releases every game for 2026-29, with three annual opponents for each team
All 16 SEC teams now know their conference opponents for the next four years
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If they go to a 10-game SEC schedule, I hope Vandy becomes our fourth permanent game.
Ours are 47-49 in SEC over last three seasons. Hardly juggernauts.
The reality is that all of us- excluding gluttons for punishment- would've liked three of the following as our permanent opponents- Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi State and no doubt fans of those teams would've liked to see UK as one of their permanent opponents. But that didn't happen. We get three "every year" opponents (including one that we'd hope for in South Carolina) that we've played every year for decades anyway, so the only real difference between future schedules and past schedules is that we get one more SEC game in lieu of a cupcake. And so does every other SEC team. It is what it is.
My point is it could have been way worse. Many thought UGA would be one of the three. UK has done quite well against UF and SC the last several years. Don’t tell about losing 30 in a row because that is long over with. Kinda like pointing out we are 14-21 all time against SC. UK has 4-3 the last 7 against UF and 7-4 the last 11 against SC.
Those two schools have many inherent advantages over UK (especially UF) that make it very difficult to compete when they get it right.
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Is the SOS they just started looking at? IU plays the weakest Schedule imaginable and will get in.
The paper said they are going to repick permanent opponents every 5 years.
UF has gotten it right 2 times in the 10025 years of playing college football. Outside of SOS and urban they won zero championships. Will they get it right this? Who knows, but history says they wont.
Thats a suprise. IU dropped their scheduled Power 4 opponents this year and replaced them with cupcakes. Penn State must have played some really bad OCC games.
Bama not getting LSU as its third means they deemed it too difficult. Miss State makes no sense.
As for us, SC is the only one I probably wouldn’t have done but I don’t think there’s a great argument for anyone in that spot really.
As for us, SC is the only one I probably wouldn’t have done but I don’t think there’s a great argument for anyone in that spot really.
It was supposed to be about balancing.
And to the poster who mentioned they can revisit n 2030, I wouldn't expect many, if any, changes.
Being too good for the vast majority of teams UK has ever fielded is very different than winning National Championships. You seem to be taking this as hard for anyone to compete with when I am talking about UK not UGA and others of that ilk. They got that much right for over 30 years consecutively in our recent past. Suggesting only title seasons are "getting it right" is absolutely silly imo. Acting like they are average because only two coaches won the national championship is silly. How many UGA coaches have won it? I think it was only Vince until very recently wasn't it?
I'm accustomed to high quality posts from you ordinarily. If this is mostly just about your hatred of the Gators then I guess I can totally understand that.
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Yeah. That’s a good point. I just wished that they would have been a common opponent, because it’s not that bad of a drive to Columbia. I also have a good friend that lives there.