re: Pending schedule change, which SEC team continues their rivalry against LSU?

Does anybody have a time frame about when decisions on pods/divisions/8 or 9 game in conference schedules/who's where and all the rest of that shite will actually be made?

Rumor is pods are out as well as divisions. The only schedule item to be determined is 8 or 9 SEC Games. Teams to be ranked by winning percentage within the conference with some tie breakers.

If SEC ends up with 8 games, you will see a 1-7 format with 1 permanent rival and 7 rotating.

If SEC ends up with 9 games, you will see a 3-6 format with 3 permanent rivals and 6 rotating.

Texas and OU have no vote as they are not yet members. Of the current 14 teams, it is split evenly at 7-7on both schedules. The 7 have nots want to stay with the 8 game schedule. The 7 haves want the 9 game schedule per latest rumor.

For the 1-7 format, look for LSU to get the Aggies as the permanent rival. For the 3-6 format, look for us to end up with Aggies, Rebels and that third one will be too difficult to predict between Arkansas, Florida and Alabama.

In my short lifetime, I have always thought of Ole Miss and Florida as our biggest rivals. Bama only entered the picture when the saban era began. Of Couse this year i want to see Texas AM head on a platter, especially given the Max Johnson situation.

Downvoting something 100% accurate.

You tell us who LSU and Arkansas can play in conference annually in that scenario

I think it's going to end up being 3 perm and 6 rotating scheduling. Especially if that ups the amount of money networks will give to the SEC. If that happens though, you won't get those big game out of conference games like LSU vs Florida State unless its a permanent yearly rival like UF vs FSU. I do think that is where the push back comes. Teams want to play their out of conference rivals and going to 9 conference games already raises the strength of schedule. 10 big games might be very hard to convince these teams to do. Especially if they never expand the playoffs.

That being said. Here is the best I could get with 3 perms:

Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee, Ole Miss

Arkansas: Texas, Missouri, Miss St

Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, Miss St

Florida: Georgia, LSU, Tennessee

Georgia: Florida, South Carolina, Auburn

Kentucky: Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Missouri

LSU: Florida, Ole Miss, Texas A&M

Mississippi State: Ole Miss, Arkansas, Auburn

Missouri: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky

Ole Miss: LSU, Miss St, Alabama

Oklahoma: Missouri, Texas, Texas A&M

South Carolina: Georgia, Kentucky, Vanderbilt

Tennessee: Alabama, Vanderbilt, Florida

Texas: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M

Texas A&M: Texas, LSU, Oklahoma

Vanderbilt: Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina

LSU’s biggest rival is whichever team they have to beat to win the west.

Look at it this way, having TAMU on the schedule yearly is a big recruiting tool. We can poach as many Texas kids as we want.

I don’t know why LSU fans act like we’re too good to play them every year. We have a long history with them and it’s becoming a fun series. It’s petty. Similar to the Florida series. Our fan bases overlap a whole lot in Texas. It means a lot over here. I’d imagine there is way more mingling with Aggie fans than there are with Horns fans.

I think teams will operate under a 3-6 schedule with 3 permanent opponents and 6 rotating teams. This will be necessary to maintain long time rivalries and traditional SEC games. For instance:

Bama/Auburn but what about Bama/Tenn?

UGA/Florida but what about UGA/Auburn?

Texas/OU but what about Texas/A&M?

A&M/Texas but what about A&M/LSU?

LSU/A&M but what about LSU/Florida?

Tenn/Bama but what about Tenn/Kentucky?

OleMiss/MSU what about OleMiss/LSU?

Expansion is one thing but the SEC must maintain its’ soul. Jmo.

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Texas/OU
Ole Miss/Miss St.
UGA/Florida
Alabama/Auburn

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All these are correct

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Arkansas/Mizzou
LSU/A&M

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Forced rivalries by the SEC. A&M, in the last 3 years, has almost looked like one but LSU has played Arkansas more than A&M. Hell they have played Tulane more than A&M.

Arkansas and Missouri have played, wait for it, 13 times, most of those in the SEC.

If SEC history has shown us anything, it is that they will keep those 3 traditional SEC rivalries plus OU/UT and contrive some other reasons for any other maneuvers they make (so if A&M is whining about being in the Texas pod, they will end up with LSU, miss ST., Ole Miss with the LSU/A&M and the Ark/Mizzou rivalry excuse).

What I think the pods should look like

West Pod
Tx
OK
aTm
Mizzou

West Central Pod
LSU
Arkansas
Miss St.
Ole Miss

East Central Pod
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

East Pod

Georgia
Florida
Kentucky
South Carolina


But I suspect they will flip Ark and aTm. And it's the SEC office so who knows what they will actually do