re: Expect the schedule deck to be entirely reshuffled.

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When I read the "strength of schedule" comment, I thought that they would try to reshuffle the entire schedule by trying to give all teams a similar strength of schedule based on last year's results.

Obviously, that would not be perfect, but it seems like the entire schedule would need to be redone if there is any possibility of that happening.

The one thing I did wonder about is would they keep the same East and West alignments? Or, would they simply take the top 2 teams after a reshuffling of the schedule that did not take into effect the East v. West alignment, e.g., we wouldn't necessarily play both Auburn and Alabama just because they are both in the West?

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No. SEC has already said that they are maintaining the divisions and not doing like what the ACC is doing.

When they spoke about SOS, they were speaking in reference of just the 2 additional game opponents.

So they are maintaining the scheduled games as is (maybe not necessarily the same dates) and then adding 2 teams trying as best they can to balance SOS.

Currently LSU is playing theoretically the #2 and #5 teams in the East. So adding a TN and Mizz or Vandy would have us playing the #’s 2, 3, 5, and 6/7 teams. Averaging the perceived strength rankings of this team would give us an avg of 4-4.25.

Currently, Bama plays UGA and TN, which would be the #’s 1 and 3 teams. So if they were to add SC and Vandy (perceived 5 & 7 teams), then they would have an avg of 4, which would be the same as LSU.

Everyone can’t end up at a 4; but can be somewhere around that, which would be a perceived balance of the strength of teams everyone has to play.