re: 2024 LSU Football Schedule

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Everyone LSU would consider a bigger rival has someone else as a primary rival with the possible exception of Arkansas. LSU, A&M, Arkansas and Missouri are the last teams standing after everyone else is paired up. LSU-A&M and Arkansas-Missouri is the most logical arrangement of the 4 teams.


Aside from ending up with UK-USCe as another stretch choice, I would agree.

Bama-Auburn
Georgia-Florida
Texas-Oklahoma
Ole Miss-Miss St
Tenn-Vandy

Then the remaining 6 just make the best of what’s left:
LSU-A&M
Arkansas-Mizzou
Kentucky-South Carolina

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The proposal to do a 1-7 format where each team only keeps one permanent opponent is incredibly destructive to the traditional SEC series- as well being a less consistent method of reaching two parties for the championship game.

It is also far from a small thing for series played for the better part of a century (or even more than 100 times) to be rotated as if they were no more valued than random matchups with very little history.

I hope sanity prevails and they don't end up doing the 1-7 because many of the following annual games would be lost:

Bama: Auburn or Tennessee, LSU, MSU, OM
Auburn: Alabama or Georgia, LSU, MSU, OM
Florida: LSU, Tennessee, Kentucky
Georgia: Auburn or Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina
LSU: Florida, Alabama, Auburn, OM, MSU
Tennessee: Alabama or Vanderbilt, Florida, Kentucky