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What is the logic of "common opponents"?
Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:09 pm
Why do SEC teams keep the same team from the other side of the bracket every year and interchange the other ones every few years?
Is there some benefit to this?
Is there some benefit to this?
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Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:11 pm to Cadello
Ratings.
Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:12 pm to Cadello
Alabama and Tennessee as well as Auburn and Georgia insisted on maintaining their annual rivalry when the SEC grew from 10 to 12 teams. Otherwise the SEC would have gone to a format similar to what the Big XII has now.
Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:13 pm to Cadello
To keep rivalries in opposite divisions that already existed in place. Such as ALA/UT, AUB/UGA, etc.
If you rotated both opposite division foes, then those rival games wouldn't be played every year.
So, the SEC when it expanded, kept the rival games, and assigned everyone else a permanent opponent (we got UF) in the opposite division and rotated the other.
If you rotated both opposite division foes, then those rival games wouldn't be played every year.
So, the SEC when it expanded, kept the rival games, and assigned everyone else a permanent opponent (we got UF) in the opposite division and rotated the other.
Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:14 pm to Cadello
The world will explode if Bama/UT and Auburn/UGA don't play every year.
Posted on 12/6/09 at 5:15 pm to Cadello
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Why do SEC teams keep the same team from the other side of the bracket every year and interchange the other ones every few years?
Are you getting tired of playing UF?
Posted on 12/6/09 at 6:14 pm to Cadello
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Is there some benefit to this?
It definitely benefits the SEC West teams who are not LSU and do not have to face Florida every year.
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