re: Best guess on who LSUs 3 permanents are?

Here's what I thinks the locks for each team are:

Bama: AU, Tenn
Arkansas: Texas, Mizzou
Auburn: Bama, UGA
UF: UGA
UGA: Auburn, UF, USC
UK: Vandy, Florida
LSU: Ole Miss
MSU: Ole Miss
Mizzou: Arkansas
OU: Texas
Ole Miss: MSU, LSU
USC: UGA
Tenn: Bama, Vandy
Texas: OU, aTm
aTm: Texas
Vandy: Tenn, UK

I believe that the SEC will look at the overall Conference and decide no team will get 3 permanent opponents that are in the "top half" of the conference historically (or vice versa).

So that means Bama and Auburn won't get LSU.

There's a lot more that I think fill in the gaps here (like I think they match up Vandy and OM again as permanents)

It also means that LSU won't get a grouping like OM, Arkansas, and aTm, despite OM's resurgence lately.

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Florida

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You can tell how old a poster is based on if they have Florida on their 3. Most are late 30s to early 40s. I'd bet you are in your late 30s.

If you ask someone under 35, who LSU's biggest rival is, they'll answer Bama. If you ask someone 36 to early 40s, they will say Florida. If you ask someone very old, like over 80 or so, they'll say Ole Miss. If you ask someone in 60s or 70s, some may even say Tulane.

Besides Tulane, it all comes down to who was LSU's best opponent when they were in college aged. And for people who are 38 or 39, that was Florida. Not many 20 year olds are going to say Florida is a Top 3 rival of LSU.

No body in SEC scheduling office in Birmingham, Alabama will see Florida as a huge rival for LSU. I would be shocked if Florida makes it. I see a 1% chance of that happening.

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My guess is ole miss, bama and A&M even if someone said it’s not gonna be bama

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The thing with that is SEC office said that for top half SEC teams, they will have 2 top half opponents and 1 bottom half. For bottom half SEC teams, they will have 1 top half opponents and 2 bottom half.

As of recent since Kiffin's arrival, I'd say Ole Miss and A&M are around the 7th and 8th spots with Bama obviously top half. That'd give LSU 3 top half opponents which the SEC office said they would not do. I hope they replace one of those with Arkansas.

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The thing with that is SEC office said that for top half SEC teams, they will have 2 top half opponents and 1 bottom half. For bottom half SEC teams, they will have 1 top half opponents and 2 bottom half.

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This is exactly why they need to get rid of permanent opponents altogether.

Go to a true rotation and if Bama/Auburn, Texas/aTM or OU, UGA/Auburn, Bama/Tennessee etc want to play each other in years when they're not in the rotation, let them schedule it and not count against the conference record. The same thing has already been done in college football and college baseball so it's not impossible BUT those programs want to protect their rivalries at the expense of other programs and it's bullshite.

If you want permanent opponants, you go back to divisions.

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Someone in the know said Bama won’t be one

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Reason why is the SEC said they will give top half SEC teams 2 top half opponents and 1 bottom half. Historically, Auburn has been a top half. Tenn recently has been top half. That's kind of subjective as Auburn sucks now, and Tenn sucks in the 2010s. If they consider Tenn and Auburn as top half SEC teams and consider the Tenn rivalry more important than LSU, then LSU would not play Bama.

I'd be in favor of that as LSU would probably have a nati or two more if Bama was never on the schedule. At least 1 more.

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Adams College

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They’re not the same after losing Goebel, Burke and Polowatski

With the fluidity of conferences these days, “permanent” is not the description I would use.

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Hogwarts
Adams College
Port Chester University

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Hey, none of those are in the SEC, so they can't be one of the permanents, but they look very much eligible for DAVA to schedule them for one of his entertaining OOC games in the Tiger.

DAVA does the absolute minimum possible to hold on to that job. He should have been extricated from LSU a long time ago, but hangs on by virtue of LSU's "Special Wokeness Minority Preference" statute..........

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Permanent opponent candidates with my predictions it actually happens

100% OM
90% A&M
70% Bama
—believe it’s those 3^

30% Arkansas
25% Florida
10% Oklahoma
5% State
—small likelihood it’s any of these^

Zero chance it’s any others

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Someone in the know said Bama won’t be one
haven’t heard that but believable the SEC offices wouldn’t give Bama lsu when they already have Tennessee and Auburn as permanents

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This is best answer here.

6 months of these posts is gonna be torture