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My Formula for football scheduling

Posted on 8/11/14 at 3:50 pm
Posted by GeorgeWest
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2013
13260 posts
Posted on 8/11/14 at 3:50 pm
1. IF the SEC stays with 8 conference games...

One Big 5 conf team in an opening game neutral site game in Arlington, Houston, Atlanta, Jersey, or Chicago Soldier Field

One Big 5 conf team in a home and home. I really like that we scheduled UCLA. Play all the PAC 12 teams home and home.

Other two games would be against Louisiana schools who can bus in and maybe sell 2-4K tickets.

2. If SEC goes to 9 conference games, I would drop 1 of the Louisiana teams. That might mean we'd onlyt have 6 home games in some years. I can live with that because attendance at home game is declining fast especially for rent-a-wins.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 3:52 pm
Posted by pointdog33
Member since Jan 2012
2765 posts
Posted on 8/11/14 at 3:54 pm to
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I can live with that because attendance at home game is declining fast especially for rent-a-wins.


Just because butts aren't in the seats doesn't mean those tickets weren't sold. Going to 6 games at home takes away $
Posted by fightingtigers98
Member since Oct 2011
13248 posts
Posted on 8/11/14 at 3:54 pm to
frick neutral site games
Posted by PhiTiger1764
Lurker since Aug 2003
Member since Oct 2009
13957 posts
Posted on 8/11/14 at 4:16 pm to
My SEC scheduling wish: no more divisions. Top 2 teams go to the SECCG.

3 permanent opponents, 5 rotating. That way in a four year span you play every single SEC team home and away.

Posted by OldManRiver
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2005
6925 posts
Posted on 8/11/14 at 7:47 pm to
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If SEC goes to 9 conference games, I would drop 1 of the Louisiana teams. That might mean we'd onlyt have 6 home games in some years. I can live with that because attendance at home game is declining fast especially for rent-a-wins.

There's no way LSU or any other school with a brain would handicap themselves by scheduling 6 away games against Big 5 conf. teams. Forget all the revenue talk, from a competitive football standpoint that's just dumb.

If there's a 9 game SEC schedule, I'd bet the house that in the year of 5 road games, there would be 4 games at home, and doubtful any of them would be killers.
Posted by tigers102886
Member since May 2008
1227 posts
Posted on 8/12/14 at 6:54 am to
This would be my ideal schedule:

1 OOC game with above average AQ (BCS) Conference School (Home and Home)

1 OOC game with average to below average AQ (BCS) Conference School (Home and Home)

1 OOC game with Cupcake School, but not Division II (Always Home game)

9 Conference games with no permanent cross-divisional rivals.

No neutral site games.

But ince we are stuck with neutral site games, I am on board with another posters suggestion that the above average AQ team should be a three game series: Home, Home, and Neutral.
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