re: If you don’t think the scheduling is biased, check out next years

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If you have any dignity at all, you'll just admit now that Bama's 2018 and 2019 schedules, minus LSU and vice versa, are MUCH easier than LSU's.

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MUCH easier? Meh. Easier, sure. But this whole thread is about an inherent bias, not whether teams play varying SOS year-to-year. What about Alabama's schedule leads one to say there is a bias on way or the other. Florida and Tennessee sucked 2 years ago when we played them. Does that mean there was a bias in favor of us? With a rotating schedule, the SEC cannot predict how good or bad teams are going to be when the games fall. As for OOC scheduling, when the Louisville game was scheduled (years ago) for Alabama, that was viewed as a strong OOC game. Same with FSU when they were preseason top 3 and ended up sucking. Likewise, when LSU scheduled Miami, they were a strong team, not the 7-6 team they turned out to be. ANd BYU wasn't a 4-8 team when LSU scheduled them. You can't just look at schedules on a year-to-year basis and determine because team A and team B weren't good when the game was played (not scheduled but played) that there is an inherent bias with scheduling.

These permanent cross-division games have been in place since 1992. The teams that suck now haven't always sucked and the teams that are good now haven't always been good. Even if the SEC did away with permanent cross-division games, there will be years where the chips fall just right and give one team an easier schedule than another. That, however, does not mean that there is a bias, which is the entire premise of this thread.

Like I said earlier, we have fans that think if Alabama doesn't only play hard games that there is some conspiracy in the SEC office. Alabama has shown over the years that they are more than willing to schedule games with big P5 programs. Do they every single year? No, but neither does LSU.

I don't recall the sky screaming from our fans when Tennessee was beating Alabama every year that scheduling wasn't fair. They beat Alabama 10 of 12 games from 1995-2006. Sometimes you can't look at every situation in a vacuum, although that falls on deaf ears 90% of the time on here. People just feel better about LSU being behind Alabama by creating ridiculous conspiracies and discounting the very obvious answer that Alabama is, quite simply, just better than we are right now.

Geeze! Stop with this crap. When the SEC built those bridge schedules, there was a valid point to be made about LSU's vs Alabama's schedules.

NOW, we are on a rotating schedule that is not unfair in that it is what the vast majority of SEC schools want. It is just a fluke that Tennessee football has fallen and cannot get up and that UF Football has flourished this century. Until that changes, Bama has a built-in advantage over LSU in SEC scheduling.

When the decision was made to make UF LSU's perm and UTenn bama's perm, UTenn's program was far superior to UF's and had been for 75 years. I understand that has changed in the 21st century, but it is schools like Ole Miss, State, UK, Vandy, Carolina, A&M, Mizzou, and Arkansas that like the schedules this way, i.e. with crossdivision perms. It's not because of Bama, Tenn, and UGA that that won't change.

Neither of you will be honest? Really?

Look again...swallow your pride...


2018...

LSU
Miami
SE LA
LA Tech
Florida
Georgia
Rice

BAMA
Louisville
Arkansas State
Cajuns
Missouri
Tennessee
Citadel


2019...

LSU
Ga Southern
Texas
NW State
Vandy
Utah State
Florida

BAMA
Duke
New Mexico State
South Carolina
Southern Miss
Tennessee
Western Carolina

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you're not being honest.

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What part of what he said was not honest?

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Sometimes you just need to admit when you're wrong

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Except what he said is actually correct regarding scheduling. Did you actually read what he said?

I’m not bitching about it. Just saying Tennessee sucks balls now, and we clearly played the best 2 teams from the East in the same year. Meanwhile Alabama is out here playing Missouri, and Tennessee.

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It takes two to tango brother.

Bama can't make teams play them. No one's lining up to play them because they don't want an automatic L unless they're getting a huge paycheck.

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Hey, all I'm saying is that bama plays a far easier schedule than us in both 2018 and 2019. I'm not even getting into reasoning in this thread...can't get past the initial argument when multiple people are claiming that it doesn't show what it clearly does.

Anyone want to tell me, flat out, that bama didn't play an easier schedule in 2018 and that they're not lined up to play an easier schedule in 2019?

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Maybe they do. I just don't know why it matters.

It doesn't change what we have to do.

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They obviously do. I've been having trouble getting a couple people here to admit that plain as day fact...and it's aggravating seeing these baws be so dishonest.

I won't explain why it matters...this should be plain as day obvious, too. Really, man?

I would say all of this tells us that we probably need to reevaluate our scheduling strategy.

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Well their s.o.s. was higher than ours if you include the SECCG. Excluding that LSU was #1 and Bama was #5. Not really much of a difference there, but sure if you would like to make a point about a single season in a vacuum I guess we had a slightly tougher regular season schedule. What point does this prove in your mind?

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Holy frick...you want to expand the argument past the regular season now? You'd rather move the goalpost than just admit that what I stated is correct?

This is why people complain about the rant.

And our non-common opponent schedule in 2018 was significantly more difficult than bama's...not slightly...significantly. Go back and look at it again. 2019 is not much different...a little less disparity, but our's is still a decent amount more difficult.

This proves that we play a harder schedule than bama does.

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Actually Saban is the only coach in the SEC pushing for a 9 game SE schedule. It's everyone else that has voted against it.

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That doesn't mean he doesn't make sure the permanent opponent format never changes. Saban plays by the rules, not for principle. He didn't concede to spread offenses routing him just because he lobbied for a rule change on the pretext that they were unsafe.

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when the permanent opponent was picked Bama got no break by drawing Tennessee

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So now they drew Tennessee. I thought it was life or death that they play them every year.