re: Would you prefer to play Florida every year if you had the choice?

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Would you prefer to play Florida every year if you had the choice?

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I love that we play Florida every year. I wish we could play every SEC team every year. But since we can't, we have to sacrifice something on one or more of three issues:

1. Getting to play this great, fun game every year;

2. Having an equal chance in the division race with Alabama, etc.; and

3. Getting to play other teams in the East often enough to at least get to feel like we're in the same conference with them.

For me, even though #1 is something I'd rather not give up, #2 and #3 combined are probably more important. If it were up to me, I'd probably go with all rotating inter-divisional games. That would keep #2 and #3 at the expense of #1. The next option would probably be to keep the current schedule format but count only division games toward the division title, which would keep #1 and #2 but sacrifice #3. Right now, we are sacrificing #2 and #3 just to keep #1.