Odd SECCG quote from the LSU page re the Florida rescheduling.

True, but it doesn't match any of the conversations about the situation that we have heard. The media was conceding Florida's advantage in their race against Tennessee. They just thought we were sore losers for pointing it out.

Under this rule, Florida had no advantage to not play the game. In fact, they were at a significant disadvantage.

Nobody was saying that applying this rule essentially gave Tennessee the East.

GEAUX TIGERS

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thought the whole argument driving a reschedule was that Florida would have an advantage in getting to the SECCG if we didn't and Tennessee lost to Bama Saturday

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They found out they were wrong and caved. It's the only explanation for this game being played.

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The SEC Commissioner’s Regulations requires each football team play all eight Conference games in a season in order to be eligible to compete for a divisional title and play in the SEC Championship Game.

This has been mentioned repeatedly on this site.

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Link it

And, as I think of it, Sankey didn't even mention it in his phone call to Gary and Verne during the Tenn/aTm game.

GEAUX TIGERS

That provision was the only leverage the Commissioner had. Now, had the game not been played, and had Florida gone 6-1 to Tennessee's 6-2, I'm not sure that Florida would have been denied a spot in the championship game because you have to square that provision, which is a section that is clearly labeled as applying to scheduling, with the other provision that expressly states that the champion is determined by winning percentage (if 8 games is actually a hard requirement, then the winning percentage provision is meaningless). The truth is probably that both these provisions were holdovers from the time when the SEC didn't set the schedule for teams and only required that you play 5 conference games at a minimum.

I would expect that the conference will be adopting some new regulations to deal with situations where games have to be cancelled (and giving the commissioner more power on scheduling) and truly can't be made up.

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It's your contention.
Can you back it up?
After all , it was " repeatedly".

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Prove me wrong.

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Posters have repeatedly linked to the SEC website rules for this matter.

Look it up yourself.

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Yea, it never happened

I know. I head this on Mascona yesterday. I had the WTF look as well. Why in the frick didn't we know about this sooner. There a million threads on this board and calls to local radio shows with ideas for the division championships.

The wording on that wasn't exactly clear (said each team would play 8 conference games, not that it required 8 to be eligible for the CG), but Sankey probably informed them that he would enforce it that way. Once Alleva heard that, he then used that as leverage to keep our home game and our bye week because UF had no choice but to reschedule. That's probably why he announced his requirements in advance. Pretty strong move by Alleva in my opinion.