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Andy Staples puts SEC 9 game schedule as "no brainer"
Posted on: May 29, 2023 at 09:24:08 CT
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Not saying SEC will do the right thing - and there are some on this board and in the SEC who want the Baby Seals and the Little Sisters of the Poor on their schedules (yech! who wants to watch that?), but Staples puts forth a decent argument for 9 games.
The most common-sense method of scheduling a 16-team league with nine games is to have three fixed opponents and then rotate the remaining 12 teams through the remaining six spots twice every four years.
The SEC still hasn’t ruled out remaining at eight conference games and having only one fixed opponent per team, but it needs to put that notion to pasture quickly. The push to stay at eight is led by perennial also-rans that want that extra non-conference slot to schedule for bowl eligibility.
Let’s put this as plainly as possible: If you have Texas and Texas A&M in your league and don’t have them play football annually, you are stupid. If you hijack the league schedule for almost 20 years to ensure Alabama and Tennessee play every season and then stop playing that series annually just when it’s getting fun again, you are stupid. If you stop playing the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry (Auburn-Georgia) annually so Mississippi State can schedule another easy win, you are stupid.
Some of the games created by the changes in the BSEC should be blockbusters.
We’re going to see Texas play Texas A&M again. The Longhorns’ arrival also finally means Arkansas has a conference opponent it actually hates. Oklahoma will be visiting Alabama and Tennessee and getting visits from LSU and Georgia. Fun old SEC matchups such as Auburn-Florida will happen twice every four years instead of twice every 12.
And you get to see every team in the SEC twice - at home and away - in a 4 year period.
It's a no brainer - unless you want to see Louisiana Tech and South Dakota.
The most common-sense method of scheduling a 16-team league with nine games is to have three fixed opponents and then rotate the remaining 12 teams through the remaining six spots twice every four years.
The SEC still hasn’t ruled out remaining at eight conference games and having only one fixed opponent per team, but it needs to put that notion to pasture quickly. The push to stay at eight is led by perennial also-rans that want that extra non-conference slot to schedule for bowl eligibility.
Let’s put this as plainly as possible: If you have Texas and Texas A&M in your league and don’t have them play football annually, you are stupid. If you hijack the league schedule for almost 20 years to ensure Alabama and Tennessee play every season and then stop playing that series annually just when it’s getting fun again, you are stupid. If you stop playing the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry (Auburn-Georgia) annually so Mississippi State can schedule another easy win, you are stupid.
Some of the games created by the changes in the BSEC should be blockbusters.
We’re going to see Texas play Texas A&M again. The Longhorns’ arrival also finally means Arkansas has a conference opponent it actually hates. Oklahoma will be visiting Alabama and Tennessee and getting visits from LSU and Georgia. Fun old SEC matchups such as Auburn-Florida will happen twice every four years instead of twice every 12.
And you get to see every team in the SEC twice - at home and away - in a 4 year period.
It's a no brainer - unless you want to see Louisiana Tech and South Dakota.
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Andy Staples puts SEC 9 game schedule as "no brainer" - El Zorro MU - 5/29 09:24:08