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Getting Rid of Divisions in Football
Posted on 5/31/16 at 11:47 am
Posted on 5/31/16 at 11:47 am
What's stopping the SEC from doing this? Is it required by the NCAA that conferences with 12+ teams have division?
Seems like it would solve the scheduling issues and still keep traditional rivalries.
Keep your 4 biggest rivals (for LSU - Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss and A&M) and then rotate the remaining 4 conference games.
Seems like it would solve the scheduling issues and still keep traditional rivalries.
Keep your 4 biggest rivals (for LSU - Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss and A&M) and then rotate the remaining 4 conference games.
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Posted on 5/31/16 at 11:49 am to oreeg
They just need to go to 9 conference games. 14 teams and only 8 conference games is stupid.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 11:49 am to oreeg
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Keep your 4 biggest rivals (for LSU - Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss and A&M
LSU's 4 biggest rivals are Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Missouri, and a post-death penalty Ole Miss.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 11:54 am to oreeg
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Keep your 4 biggest rivals (for LSU - Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss and A&M) and then rotate the remaining 4 conference games.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 11:57 am to oreeg
I think the NCAA rule is in order to have a championship game you need 12+ teams and 2 separate divisions.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:01 pm to oreeg
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What's stopping the SEC from doing this?
Money.
The championship game and playoff formats in general are not about determining a true league or national champion, they are about money. Just like the NFL.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:03 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
would a 9 game conference schedule require an undefeated lsu to play bama 3 times?
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:11 pm to oreeg
I read that they would be talking about re alignment this week in SEC offices. To move Auburn and possible bama
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:22 pm to Tiger Nation 84
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I read that they would be talking about re alignment this week in SEC offices. To move Auburn and possible bama
I'd be absolutely shocked if they actually did this.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:26 pm to BeauCephus307
It would have been in their best interest to split LSU/Bama 5 years ago.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:43 pm to Larry
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LSU's 4 biggest rivals are Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Missouri, and a post-death penalty Ole Miss.
I just got off the phone with the SEC office, they've ruled that those are Bama's four biggest rivals.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:54 pm to oreeg
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Keep your 4 biggest rivals (for LSU - Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss and A&M) and then rotate the remaining 4 conference games.
It would make more sense to give each team three annual rivals and rotate the other five games. That way you'd have 10 teams rotating through five spots (a nice, even rotation where you play each team twice every four years) instead of nine teams rotating through four spots (uneven, would have to stagger the teams, play each team four times every nine years).
Posted on 5/31/16 at 12:58 pm to Tiger Nation 84
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alignment this week in SEC offices. To move Auburn and possible bama
I don't see any possible way they can move Auburn without also moving Alabama. They have to move together. Otherwise, Alabama would have two opponents in the East that they have to play every year or all of college football would sink into an abyss apparently. No way can you have two permanent cross-divisional opponents with six divisional opponents and still play only eight games. That would mean they would literally never play the other five teams in the other division.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:32 pm to thunderbird1100
No we don't need 9 conference games. That would create a 5-4 home/away inequity.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 1:45 pm to Nuts4LSU
Actually no divisions makes sense for the SEC ... keep 8 games ... play 3 permenant opponents and rotate 5 teams every two years ... top two records go to Atlanta ... you play everyone in the SEC home and home every 4 years.
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Permanents - TA&M, Ole Miss, Bama
2017
Arkansas
@Auburn
Vanderbilt
@South Carolina
Georgia
@Ole Miss
Alabama
@Texas A&M
2018
@Arkansas
Auburn
@Vanderbilt
South Carolina
@Georgia
Ole Miss
@Alabama
Texas A&M
2019
Mississippi St
@Tennessee
Kentucky
@Missouri
Florida
@Ole Miss
Alabama
@Texas A&M
2020
@Mississippi St
Tennessee
@Kentucky
Missouri
@Florida
Ole Miss
@Alabama
Texas A&M
LSU
Permanents - TA&M, Ole Miss, Bama
2017
Arkansas
@Auburn
Vanderbilt
@South Carolina
Georgia
@Ole Miss
Alabama
@Texas A&M
2018
@Arkansas
Auburn
@Vanderbilt
South Carolina
@Georgia
Ole Miss
@Alabama
Texas A&M
2019
Mississippi St
@Tennessee
Kentucky
@Missouri
Florida
@Ole Miss
Alabama
@Texas A&M
2020
@Mississippi St
Tennessee
@Kentucky
Missouri
@Florida
Ole Miss
@Alabama
Texas A&M
Posted on 5/31/16 at 2:27 pm to Tigerrotti
Hey all of you idiots. ANY setup where there are ANY permanent cross division games is retarded.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:17 pm to Tigerrotti
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Permanents
get rid of those
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:21 pm to thunderbird1100
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They just need to go to 9 conference games
What difference is one extra conference game going to make? we still won't play everyone
there will be years we play 5 at home and 4 on the road and vice versa...I don't think that is a fair way to determine a champ
Posted on 5/31/16 at 3:56 pm to omegaman66
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Hey all of you idiots. ANY setup where there are ANY permanent cross division games is retarded.
yea, having some teams protecting their "rival" has always pissed me off. the SEC office needs to grow some balls and treat all teams the same.
Posted on 5/31/16 at 4:18 pm to oreeg
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What's stopping the SEC from doing this?
1) Conference Championship Game. Makes a lot of money for league.
2) Equitable scheduling. If you have a strong team playing all the weak sisters then they get nowhere in SOS. Iowa played nobody last year in the Big 10 and could barely break the top 10 as an undefeated.
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