re: Best way to select permanent opponents for SEC Football

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I’ll say it yet again. It 1000% won’t be Bama. You’re high or ignorant if you think they’ll get Auburn, Tennessee and us

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100% agree.

Bama will not allow that and Tenner and Auburn are true historical rivalries for them.

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Who is considered South Carolina's rivals in conference?

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For scheduling purposes in other sports besides football it has typically been Kentucky. For a little while, I think both men's and women's basketball had the "permanent opponent" that they played twice every year and it set up like this:

LSU-A&M
Tenn-Vandy
S.C.--Kentucky
Alabama--Auburn
Florida-Georgia
Arkansas--Missouri
Ole Miss--Miss. St.

As far as "on the field" rival...I am not sure SC has one really.

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I think that LSU is going to get Oklahoma simply because the SEC and ESPN want both OU and LSU to play the Sat after Thanksgiving every year. My guess is Ole Miss, A&M, and OU.

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Based on what? Because they played once in that slot?

OU should play Missouri and LSU play Arkansas the Saturday/Friday after Thanksgiving.

Missouri, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Texas have no history with the SEC.
They naturally have their own familiarity, but grouping them up would not be helpful in making them an embedded part of the conference instead of just bolt on expansion schools. So, I doubt they go with the pod approach.

Arkansas and South Carolina to some degree have embedded themselves into the traditional SEC culture having been in the league for quite some time.

There are natural in-state rivals.
Texas/A&M
Ole Miss/Miss State
Bama/Auburn

Then there are long-standing rivalries.
Texas/ OU
Tenn/Bama
Georgia/Florida

Then, you have long-term SEC East/West matchups.
Tenn/UGA
LSU against ole miss, arkansas, auburn, alabama
Everybody wanting to play Kentucky and Vandy.

And the relative perception of having hard versus easy opponents based on current and historical strength.
For instance, you wouldn't want to be in a pod with Bama/LSU/UGA/Florida as your permanent opponents over the last 20 years.
To some degree the same could be said for Texas and OU over the last 20 or so years.
Tennessee was championship good in the 90's.

But florida has down years. Tennesee as well. Arkansas has had good years and bad years. Vandy with the right coach and quarterback have won games they traditionally lose. South Carolina can be tough.

It's definitely not going to be an easy task.

I do not understand your premise.

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’ll say it yet again. It 1000% won’t be Bama.

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The SEC wants Bama and LSU to continue playing every year because for the past 15 years its been the biggest $ drawing game the conference has.

Also Tennessee hasn't been very good until the past three seasons. They were down for a while. Auburn is currently down so its not like they are getting the 3 best teams to play. I would say our draw would be harder than theirs.

And again Ole Miss and the Aggies are damn near locks at this point. The last one is between Florida, OU, and Bama. Arkansas is not in the running.

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Rank the three or four teams you most routinely route against when they don’t play your team.

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You’re darn toutin’.

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Rank the three or four teams you most routinely route against when they don’t play your team.

I always attempt to take the route of least resistance so I'm more of a go with the flow rather than going against

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"And it's route, route route for the home team..."

I was thinking pull teams from a hat

Would rather have Arkansas or Florida than A&M. Just don’t care about Texas A&M.