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What I do see going forward and with conference only
Posted on: July 21, 2020 at 15:36:40 CT
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scheduling is more of this. New schedule format.
Kevin Kelly, November 19, 2019
The SEC has been playing an eight-game football schedule with one permanent inter-division opponent since the beginning of the 2003 season, a schedule that has drawn ire from fans and other conferences alike.
With that scheduling format, match ups between non-traditional opponents across divisions occurred every five seasons. But the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC in 2012 increased the total number of conference members to 14 and, as a result, also increased the non-permanent cross-division match ups to once every six years, or 12 to complete a home-and-home series.
As an example, the Texas A&M Aggies began SEC play in 2012 and haven’t yet played the Georgia Bulldogs in a regular-season conference match up. Texas A&M and Georgia will meet for the first time in an SEC contest on Saturday in Athens, but then Georgia doesn’t return the trip to College Station until the 2024 season.
Several ideas have been proposed to decrease the gap between those contests, including eliminating divisions, moving to a pod system, and even cross-division model based on the previous season standings.
Whether any of those models have been seriously discussed by the SEC is unknown. However, Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher said this week that he believes the conference is mulling a 3-5 model (h/t FootballScoop).
“I know they’re looking at some formats going forward that, you know, keep the three main and rotate five and all those things,” Fisher said. “I think it is good for your players, eventually, to be able to play everybody in the conference. I really do believe that. I mean I think that’s good, to have that, that you’ve played that team or been in that stadium, and those things, but when you have conferences as big as you have now, that’s kind of the way it goes.”
My take: Under the current system there is little conference cohesion. LSU doesn't visit Missouri until 2023, 11 years after Missouri joined the SEC and Georgia doesn't visit Texas A&M till 2024. Old time rivalries like Florida-Auburn, Kentucky-Ole Miss, Miss State-Tennessee are now nearly non-existent. Under the 3-5 proposal this would allow a freshman player to visit every stadium in the SEC by the time they graduate.
Under the 3-5 format, three permanent home and away and rotate everyone else home and away.
Missouri's three permanents in this proposal are: Arkansas, Texas A&M and Kentucky.
LSU's three permanents are: Alabama, Ole Miss and Texas A&M.By the way, Alabama's three permanents are: LSU, Tennessee and Auburn.
There is a lot of merit to this.
Kevin Kelly, November 19, 2019
The SEC has been playing an eight-game football schedule with one permanent inter-division opponent since the beginning of the 2003 season, a schedule that has drawn ire from fans and other conferences alike.
With that scheduling format, match ups between non-traditional opponents across divisions occurred every five seasons. But the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M to the SEC in 2012 increased the total number of conference members to 14 and, as a result, also increased the non-permanent cross-division match ups to once every six years, or 12 to complete a home-and-home series.
As an example, the Texas A&M Aggies began SEC play in 2012 and haven’t yet played the Georgia Bulldogs in a regular-season conference match up. Texas A&M and Georgia will meet for the first time in an SEC contest on Saturday in Athens, but then Georgia doesn’t return the trip to College Station until the 2024 season.
Several ideas have been proposed to decrease the gap between those contests, including eliminating divisions, moving to a pod system, and even cross-division model based on the previous season standings.
Whether any of those models have been seriously discussed by the SEC is unknown. However, Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher said this week that he believes the conference is mulling a 3-5 model (h/t FootballScoop).
“I know they’re looking at some formats going forward that, you know, keep the three main and rotate five and all those things,” Fisher said. “I think it is good for your players, eventually, to be able to play everybody in the conference. I really do believe that. I mean I think that’s good, to have that, that you’ve played that team or been in that stadium, and those things, but when you have conferences as big as you have now, that’s kind of the way it goes.”
My take: Under the current system there is little conference cohesion. LSU doesn't visit Missouri until 2023, 11 years after Missouri joined the SEC and Georgia doesn't visit Texas A&M till 2024. Old time rivalries like Florida-Auburn, Kentucky-Ole Miss, Miss State-Tennessee are now nearly non-existent. Under the 3-5 proposal this would allow a freshman player to visit every stadium in the SEC by the time they graduate.
Under the 3-5 format, three permanent home and away and rotate everyone else home and away.
Missouri's three permanents in this proposal are: Arkansas, Texas A&M and Kentucky.
LSU's three permanents are: Alabama, Ole Miss and Texas A&M.By the way, Alabama's three permanents are: LSU, Tennessee and Auburn.
There is a lot of merit to this.
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What I do see going forward and with conference only - Ozland Tiger LSU - 7/21 15:36:40