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No use bitching about this one, as it is completely out of our hands.

As a season ticket holder, I am VERY pleased to have the Florida game on the schedule at home every other year. This means we have either Florida or Bama at home each and every year. With the advent of the TAF/Tradition fees and the 8-home game reality (most years), season ticket holders deserve to get as many top-tier games as possible. It also enhances the road schedule on the travel-to-Gainseville years.

Sure, it would be IDEALISTIC to get to play all teams in the conference as many years as possible, but face it, larger conferences do not afford such. Heck, LSU NEVER played Bo Jackson, Hershel Walker or Peyton Manning, and that was when we had a different rotation and less conference teams. There is no idealism here, so we get what we get and should not throw a fit. Might as well look at the positive side on this one, unless the unlikely happens. Up to and until that happens, some of us are happy with the Florida game as our east game, and some are not. Sounds like life to me....

Deal with it.

I agree 100%! Playing Florida every year is a good thing. Believe me.

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Posted by FredSez

Birmingham

Member since Jun 2007

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Posted on 5/31/12 at 1:54 pm to therocketscientist

I am a gator hater, but love playing them, alabummer and awberm every year. I certainly enjoy my trips to Athens and Knoxsville much more than gainesville, a place that I really cannot stand. But it is a great series that we need to keep.

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Posted by omegaman66

greenwell springs

Member since Oct 2007

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Posted on 5/31/12 at 2:13 pm to FredSez

It isn't about the LSU - Florida game. It is about what is fair.

1. Some teams are traditionally stronger than other teams.
2. If you have permanent opp. then some teams will have that perm. opp. be a traditionally weaker team.
3. Whoever has the trad. weaker team will have an easier road to the SECCG.

Twist is however you want it ends up being unnecessarily unfair system.

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Even worse than that is LSU will only be playing Georgia in a series twice by the time a newborn is over 20 years old. Say what you want but that is a gay arse system.

Do any of you deny that it is ridiculous that LSU never played P. Mannning? Or Hersel Walker? Just gay arse results of a gay arse system.

I am going to turn it around on you delusional fans. Why are you so scared of playing those great players?

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Posted by bigeztiger

Columbus Ohio

Member since Jul 2011

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Posted on 5/31/12 at 2:46 pm to therocketscientist

It helps in recruiting too... Miles can garuntee a kid from Florida that he will play atleast 2 games in his home state

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Posted by Baloo

Formerly MDGeaux

Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 5/31/12 at 3:33 pm to omegaman66

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1. Some teams are traditionally stronger than other teams.

Yes, that’s why the three best teams in the West play the 3 best teams in the East. The rivalries match up with program strength.

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2. If you have permanent opp. then some teams will have that perm. opp. be a traditionally weaker team.

Yes, and that means YOU are traditionally weaker team. Want to play Kentucky? Trade programs with Mississippi State and their one SEC title ever. Ole Miss has never even been to Atlanta, so they get Vandy.

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3. Whoever has the trad. weaker team will have an easier road to the SECCG.

Sure seems to be helping them out, too. State’s been once, Arkansas has been 2 or 3 times. LSU and Bama go virtually every year and Auburn is third in appearances. So the teams with the toughest permanent rival, in both divisions, go to the title game more often. USCe’s trip to Atlanta was the first for a team other than the Big Three out East.

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Even worse than that is LSU will only be playing Georgia in a series twice by the time a newborn is over 20 years old. Say what you want but that is a gay arse system.

Well, it would be three times. Which is three more times than we played them in a 30 year stretch once, pre-expansion. Or more times than we played them in the 80s. I’d prefer a nine game schedule, so we’d play UGa every three years. That would be seven games by the time my newborn daughter buys her first legal drink.

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Do any of you deny that it is ridiculous that LSU never played P. Mannning? Or Hersel Walker? Just gay arse results of a gay arse system.

Walker was before SEC expansion, and before permanent rivals, so there was no “gay arse” system then. Back when we only had 10 teams and 6 conferences. So now that we’ve added four teams, let’s add three games so we play more teams. The permanent rival is the wrong tree to bark up – it’s the 8 game schedule which is the root of the problem. More teams, more games.

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I am going to turn it around on you delusional fans. Why are you so scared of playing those great players?

I’m not. I want to play them. NINE GAMES! Preserve rivalries and keep frequency of the other East teams. It’s not mutually exclusive. I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Saban on something.

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