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Posted on 11/8/12 at 9:00 am to Tigerstark
Because we are one conference, not a conference with two separate sets of teams (Bama, Tenn, AU, UGA)and the rest.
The whole football scheduling mess is the reason I was so opposed to conference expansion (not to mention what it does to scheduling/tournament structure in other sports). 12 was such an ideal number.
BTW, I'm just curious, can anyone answer this question for me. What was the scheduling rotation in the years just prior to the expansion to 12 teams. We played 7 Conference games a year right, what teams were permanent opponents and how did the non permanent teams rotate?
The whole football scheduling mess is the reason I was so opposed to conference expansion (not to mention what it does to scheduling/tournament structure in other sports). 12 was such an ideal number.
BTW, I'm just curious, can anyone answer this question for me. What was the scheduling rotation in the years just prior to the expansion to 12 teams. We played 7 Conference games a year right, what teams were permanent opponents and how did the non permanent teams rotate?
Posted on 11/8/12 at 9:22 am to Dreamweaver
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BTW, I'm just curious, can anyone answer this question for me. What was the scheduling rotation in the years just prior to the expansion to 12 teams. We played 7 Conference games a year right, what teams were permanent opponents and how did the non permanent teams rotate?
It seemed like we had sort of a defacto situation, whereby Ole Miss, Miss St., Bama, and Florida were our "permanent" SEC opponents, and we sort of rotated other teams in and out (we almost always played Kentucky, for some reason, though).
Interestingly, during that era, we virtually never played Auburn and only rarely Georgia -- hence we never faced Herschel Walker or Bo Jackson.
I don't know if there was any sort of "official" edict on this, though? Was there?
ETA, But we would usually only play 6 SEC games a year, then.
This post was edited on 11/8/12 at 9:34 am
Posted on 11/8/12 at 11:25 pm to Tigerstark
Best option is no permanent cross-division opponent . In years that bama/tenn are not scheduled as SEC game they can play an "out of conference" game that does not count in the SEC standings. Same for Aub/Georgia. Problem solved.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 6:52 am to Lacour
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I don't understand why Oklahoma and Nebraska were able to stop meeting every year after nearly 100 consecutive meetings when the Big 12 formed back in the mid 90s but Tennessee and Bama can't.
This! I grew up following SEC football and never knew that Alabama and UTe were bitter rivals until Alabama started whining about it during interdivisional scheduling. No one cares about preserving this so-called rivalries outside the Gump Nation and Slive and their other lackies in Birmingham. Has anyone asked UTe if they want to be saddled with $abin every year, or would prefer a chance to play Ole Miss occasionally? It's a complete travesty-as if having their own officials every game isn't advantage enough.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 7:52 am to Dreamweaver
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What was the scheduling rotation in the years just prior to the expansion to 12 teams. We played 7 Conference games a year right, what teams were permanent opponents and how did the non permanent teams rotate?
In the old days you had 7 games; 5 permanent and 2 revoloving. LSU permanants were Old Piss, Cowbell State, Gump U, Gaytors and Can'tucky. We still rarely played UT, UGA, Auburn, and Vandy.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 8:24 am to Icansee4miles
Tenn has UGA and UF for rivals.
Bama has AU and realistically now LSU.
No one anywhere outside Alabama cares about the Bama-Tenn "rivalry". LSU doesn't care about ole miss or Tulane anymore and the SEC would never cater to us if se bitche about preserving those rivalries. Bama can let Tenn go.
Bama has AU and realistically now LSU.
No one anywhere outside Alabama cares about the Bama-Tenn "rivalry". LSU doesn't care about ole miss or Tulane anymore and the SEC would never cater to us if se bitche about preserving those rivalries. Bama can let Tenn go.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 9:04 am to biglego
once they bring in two more teams they could do a pod system. Until then, expect Bama to get off easy because they are the home team to the SEC offices..........
Posted on 11/9/12 at 9:14 am to biglego
The Gumps always pay the Ref's more than any other school that is why u hardly ever see a call against Satan. For example Sat. night Bama had 1 call of 5 yards while Lsu had 7! 
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