LSU v Vanderbilt scheduling anomaly

That is weird.

Yeh it’s pretty good! Lots of good stuff to see, some of them are quite amazing.

I thought this was intentional to do a home away like this against the non permanent opponents. Then rotate to the next one from the east.

I think you’re right, just went and had a quick search through winsipedia and it looks like this is the case.

The Vandy schedule sticks out more than Georgia, Tennessee or Auburn cause there was no SECCG muddying the waters for Vandy.

Thanks!

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The Vandy schedule sticks out more than Georgia, Tennessee or Auburn cause there was no SECCG muddying the waters for Vandy

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Then you should be able to verify using Ole Miss and the teams in the East that aren’t their permanent opponents.

The only anomaly is 2020. We shouldn’t have been back to back but the sec gave the reigning champs the easiest schedule

I think the latest double-dip was Covid-related but, still, that's a weird one.

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Ole Miss and the teams in the East

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Wait... am I missing something here? Wasn't Ole Miss in the SECCG in 2003? There's a banner in Vaught-Hemingway proving they won the West that year

Thinking out loud and not looking, could the SEC have the non-permanent opponents setup in a snake scheduling style and Vandy was one of the end teams for LSU?

When a team rotated on to a another team’s
schedule, they used to play in back-to-back years so each team would get a home game. They started spacing them out once A&M and Missouri joined the SEC in 2012. But the 2012 schedule was a “bridge schedule” so the actual current rotation didn’t being til 2013 and it was supposed to run through 2024. Obviously, hurricanes and COVID have interfered with some of the sites flipping or opponent rotations being disrupted.

When the SEC finally set on a schedule rotation for a 6-game schedule in the ‘70s, LSU’s permanent opponents were Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Mississippi State. The rotating opponents were Auburn, Georgia, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. That’s why LSU never played against Bo Jackson or Herschel Walker.

In 1988, the schedule expanded to 7 games and a second rotational opponent was added. LSU played Auburn and Tennessee I. 1988-89 and Georgia and Vandy in 1990-91. Then the SEC went to a 5-2-1 rotation in 1992, with 5 divisional opponents, 2 permanent from the East (Florida and Kentucky) and 1 rotator. Kentucky dropped to a rotator in 2002 when the league went to a 5-1-2 format.