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Quick question about FB schedule...
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:48 am
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:48 am
I know every team in each division always plays another team in the other division every year. How / Why did we get stuck with Florida?
Tenn-Bama
USCe-Ark
UGA-Auburn
Florida-LSU
Vandy- Ole Miss
Kentucky-Miss St
Tenn-Bama
USCe-Ark
UGA-Auburn
Florida-LSU
Vandy- Ole Miss
Kentucky-Miss St
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Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:50 am to schexyoung
Each school got to pick a permanent opponent in the other conference. UF and LSU agreed.
I like it.
I like it.
This post was edited on 4/17/09 at 10:52 am
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:51 am to schexyoung
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Tenn-Bama
historic rivals
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USCe-Ark
came in the SEC together
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UGA-Auburn
historic rivals
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Florida-LSU
last one that made sense
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:54 am to GarmischTiger
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Each school gets to pick a permanent opponent in the other conference.
I don't think LSU/Florida were given a choice. The main reason there is one permanent was to keep the UT/Alabama and UGA/Auburn rivalries on a yearly basis. So the other four teams needed a permanent.
ETA: I think it is stupid. Do like the Big 12 and rotate the teams every two years. Or just re-align the Divisions. Move Alabama and Auburn to the East and Kentucky and Vandy to the West.
This post was edited on 4/17/09 at 10:56 am
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:55 am to spslayto
You don't think either school had any say? I don't buy it. With UT-Bama and UGA-Auburn as givens, the rest of the conference had to line up. Schools picked schools.
This post was edited on 4/17/09 at 10:58 am
Posted on 4/17/09 at 10:58 am to GarmischTiger
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You don't think either school had any say? I don't buy it.
I don't think they did. The league made the schedule.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 11:11 am to spslayto
Okay...I don't know enough about it to continue my argument so I'll accept yours.
But given what was left after Tennessee and Georgia were gone, why don't you like the matchup? I get that Florida has been a tough opponent every year, but doesn't playing them make us better?
But given what was left after Tennessee and Georgia were gone, why don't you like the matchup? I get that Florida has been a tough opponent every year, but doesn't playing them make us better?
Posted on 4/17/09 at 11:15 am to GarmischTiger
All about the
Posted on 4/17/09 at 11:15 am to GarmischTiger
quote:
get that Florida has been a tough opponent every year, but doesn't playing them make us better?
Agreed, I still think even with the year we had last year this game is the best game in the SEC year in year out. That being said, having the conferences two best teams play each other and knock one another out of the national title is rough. Just let them meet in the SEC champ game. I would rather no permenant opponents.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 12:55 pm to schexyoung
I suspect that the schools didn't have any real say. (Maybe they were asked but it was like voting in Venezuela). The natural rivals were matched up (AL-TN; GA-AUB) then the others fell into place much as one of the other posters said. It's not like LSU had a lot of grounds for objection -- in the pre-Spurrier days we were only too happy to play Florida every year.
I would prefer that there not be a permanent inter-division opponent because it can produce an unfair difference in schedule strength (compare Ole Miss' 2009 conference schedule to ours as an example) but it's here to stay at this point.
I would prefer that there not be a permanent inter-division opponent because it can produce an unfair difference in schedule strength (compare Ole Miss' 2009 conference schedule to ours as an example) but it's here to stay at this point.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 12:59 pm to spslayto
Playing UF every year gives us just another elite opponent to face and boosts our SOS. I'm all for it. UF and LSU are where its at when it comes to the class of the SEC so its only fitting they go to war every year.
This post was edited on 4/17/09 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 4/17/09 at 1:07 pm to KCinDC
quote:Meaning that LSU gets a benefit that Ole Miss doesn't? If we didn't play Florida every year, would we really have gotten to the BCS with two losses? I don't want the powder puffs. I want to show the world we are willing to take on the tough guys every year.
it can produce an unfair difference in schedule strength
Posted on 4/17/09 at 1:23 pm to wrlakers
Agree.
The goal is a National Championship...everything else is nice to have.
To play for the NC, the Tigers must win the SEC.
To win the SEC, the Tigers have to beat the best teams in the conference.
To beat the best teams in the conference the Tigers have to play the best teams in the conference.
Our out-of-division series with Florida means something...and it ain't going away.
The goal is a National Championship...everything else is nice to have.
To play for the NC, the Tigers must win the SEC.
To win the SEC, the Tigers have to beat the best teams in the conference.
To beat the best teams in the conference the Tigers have to play the best teams in the conference.
Our out-of-division series with Florida means something...and it ain't going away.
This post was edited on 4/17/09 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 4/17/09 at 1:52 pm to wrlakers
quote:
Meaning that LSU gets a benefit that Ole Miss doesn't? If we didn't play Florida every year, would we really have gotten to the BCS with two losses?
Good point. It cuts both ways. No doubt that we got in with two losses only because of our SoS, but we would not have gotten in if we hadn't won the west. That's where I was coming from. But whichever way you look at it, the difference caused by a permanent opponent pairing is arguably unfair.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 2:22 pm to KCinDC
quote:Unfair to Mississippi State, maybe. But not to LSU. We get to hate the Gators in a special way others in the West do not know. Odd that I take pleasure in that, but when 'Bama and Ole Miss are down, it's nice to have a rival you can depend on to make it a game every year.
the difference caused by a permanent opponent pairing is arguably unfair.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 2:29 pm to wrlakers
I say drop the permanent and rotate the schools every year. That is really the only fair way to do it. The Big 12 got it right on this.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 2:30 pm to schexyoung
I wouldn't have it any other way, huge game every year it seems
Posted on 4/17/09 at 2:57 pm to schexyoung
We gotta play some quality team with all the Tulames, North Texas, etc.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 3:09 pm to Geauxtiga
I wouldn't want it any other way... The Florida and LSU games are starting to be some of the best games of the year... minus last year.
Posted on 4/17/09 at 3:29 pm to schexyoung
This works both ways. For us, we always have to play Florida because we've done so. But look at Tennessee if they start doing good I mean LSU only plays them once every 4 years, but Bama and Florida play them every year.
Playing UF is a big rivalry.
Playing UF is a big rivalry.
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