re: Chris Low says SEC going to pods in 2025

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As a fan of a team that doesn’t have multiple long term historic rivals, I much rather pods.

I’m also a fan of 3 permanent opponents, although this is least balanced.

Divisions with 16 teams just makes playing the teams not in your division too infrequently. I mean, it would be playing a team once every 8 years and at a place once every 16 years and that’s with no permanent opponents and an 8 game schedule.

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I get it's easier for us as LSU fans to not care about rivalries but I cant imagine a CFB where Georgia and Florida potentially dont play every year. Or where Alabama and Tennessee dont play every year. OR maybe where even Alabama/Auburn or Ole Miss/MSU dont play every year. I think losing those would be a bigger loss than having to wait a while to play every SEC team in a larger divisional setup. I mean we go along time right now without playing some other divisional teams but other than it being a casual side talking point it's not nearly as big a talking point as losing huge yearly rivalries.

8 teams per division, you play 7 in your division then 2 in the other division with 1 permanent. Preserves all rivalries and probably makes schedules a little more closer together. In the pod system imagine a team like Arkansas who would play OM/MSU/LSU in their pod, then say draw UF/UGA, Bama/TN, OU/Texas from the other pods...would be They could finish 8-4 and legitimately be a Top 10 team.

There's pluses and minuses to each but I feel like the pod system just gets further away from what CFB is really about and just treats CFB more like the NFL, when it really isnt like the NFL.

The only guarantee in those pods is that Bama will be in with Vandy.

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Sec owes A&M a big favor after Sankey “John Holmes” them bringing Tx in

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The hell you say. Aggie can suck it. They ran away from TX and ran away from their bowl game. They don't deserve jack.

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Something was lost when we let Missouri in

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But we gained loads of woke bullshite

My prediction for 3 permanents. Obviously ours isn’t easy but I think likely and bama would arguably have the toughest. This is pretty even and I think better programs have tougher ones but not unreasonable. You also keep most of the big games people want to see.

Lsu - bama, A&M, ole miss
A&M - Lsu, Texas, Arkansas
Ole miss - Lsu, miss st, Oklahoma
Miss st - ole miss, auburn, Kentucky
Texas - Oklahoma, Arkansas, A&M
Oklahoma - Texas, Missouri, ole miss
Bama - Lsu, auburn, Tennessee
Auburn - bama, Georgia, miss st
Tennessee - vandy, bama, Florida
Vandy - Tennessee, Kentucky, SC
Arky - Texas, Missouri, a&m
Missouri - Arkansas, Oklahoma, SC
Georgia - Florida, auburn, SC
Florida - Georgia, Kentucky, tenn
SC - Georgia, Missouri, vandy
Kentucky - Florida, vandy, miss st

I visualise the Yankee teams Kentucky and Mizzou being together with OU and Vandy.

LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St and Florida

Alabama, Auburn, Tenn and Georgia

SC, Texas, Arky, A&M

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Quite possibly the dumbest solution they could've come up with.

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FFS, it's 16 teams now - something has to give. If we stick with the divisional model, then you play non-divisional teams every 4 years (assuming we go to 9 conference games, otherwise, keeping 8 conference games, it is every 8 years and every 16 years to play through all the opposing stadiums).

Keeping the division model with 16 teams effectively breaks the SEC into 2 conferences.

"Pods" will make it seem very similar to NFL conferences with 4 divisions - not exactly, but a fairly close comparison.

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3. LSU , OM, State& Ark
4. OU, Tx , A&M & Mizzou

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Selfishly want LSU to end up with OU so I get an LSU game in my backyard.

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We would have the only pod without a freebie. Gumps would get 2.

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Meh - we have about a 80% winning record against Arky going back to their entry to the SEC.

I think we've lost about a dozen games to Miss. State since the Nixon administration and that is skewed by their 5 straight to start the 80s. We're only worse 3 or 4 games against Ole Miss over that same timeframe.

Alabama nor Ga is going for that $hit.

This entire $hitshow is about getting 3-4 SEC teams in CFP every year. Nothing else.