9 SEC Games: 4 Home, 4 Away, 1 Neutral Site

Neutral site games would be against non division opponents.

Add KC or Miami could also be options. I think you could easily schedule around LSU in NOLA or UGA in Atlanta and so on.

Make it stop.

I think Neutral site games would be cool. Especially when we play Top Dogs like Tennessee Georgia and Florida and maybe even SCAR if they keep up relevancy.

But Kentucky, Missouri, and Vanderbilt would be boring.

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What about finding 7 neutral sites in SEC country and have a “neutral site” weekend for the conference.

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Don’t really like the idea but it’s an interesting discussion as to who would be the most interesting/logical annual neutral site opponents:
Auburn-Bama
State-Ole Miss
UF-UGA
LSU-Ark
mizzou-vandy
Tennessee-Kentucky
A&M-SC

Maybe swap LSU for SC and have LSU-A&M and SC-Ark

UF-UGA and Arkansas-A&M are already played at neutral sites, so you can cross those teams off the list. That said, if the SEC went to 9 games, it would probably work out to where most of the other 10 teams would play a road/neutral site nonconference game in years with 5 SEC home games, and play all nonconference games at home in years with 4. That would be a good way to set up home and homes with other Power 5 teams.

The ultimate solution is moving to a pod setup that that switches your pairings in even and odd years.

Imagine this:

Pod A: UF, UGA, SCAR
Pod B: UT, Bama, AU
Pod C: LSU, A&M, MSU, Ole Miss
Pod D: Mizzou, UK, Arky, Vandy

In even years, the divisions are as follows:

Division 1: Pod A+C (UF, UGA, SCAR, LSU, A&M, MSU, Ole Miss)

Division 2: Pod B+D (UT, Bama, AU, Mizzou, UK, Arky, Vandy)

In Odd years, the small pods switch places:

Division 1: Pod B+C (UT, Bama, AU, LSU, A&M, MSU, Ole Miss)

Division 2: Pod A+D (UF, UGA, SCAR, Mizzou, UK, Arky, Vandy)

Then your 8 game schedules becomes your pod, that year's pod pair, and half of the teams in the other pod your size. It's sounds complicated, but it's easy and looks like the following:

This idea should be taken behind a shed and shot. You know if his happens Bama will be playing neutral site games against Kentucky and Vandy until Saban retires. Shoot it.

Bless you

I don't like neutral site games at all really unless it's a bucket list-type game...Lambeau.

I feel 12 homes games a year for LSU would be very equitable for everyone.