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Posted on 7/22/21 at 7:56 pm to jbraua
Totally agree
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:00 pm to jbraua
Sign me up! We have the easiest pod.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:07 pm to jbraua
These are the pods I had in mind except I was thinking A&M and Arkansas would be switched. LSU, Mississippi schools and Arkansas feels right for permanent opponents,
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:47 pm to beaverfever
Maybe I am the old man on the lawn, but why does the SEC keep fricking with shite every year ? Do we really need 16 teams in a conference ? Damn ! LSU gonna play the top 10 teams in the nation ? No team is gonna survive that gauntlet. Screw Sankey.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 8:52 pm to jbraua
While it would be weird to not play Bama and Auburn every year we'd play them every other year. Presumably the schedule-makers would have enough sense to alternate the powers so one year you'd home / away with Bama OU and UGA and next year you'd be Auburn Texas and Florida. Play A&M every year and we're guaranteed multiple HUGE home games.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:02 pm to West Bank Dan
I think it would work as long as they put the one easy team with a hard team out of the pod , TX and ark , bama and vandy , Uga and Kentucky, then the next year you get OU and Missouri, aub and tenn, flaorida and south Carolina, so you get 3 hard and easier . No different than now ,lsu still play aub, bama, fla now every year,not that much different.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:15 pm to beaverfever
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These are the pods I had in mind except I was thinking A&M and Arkansas would be switched. LSU, Mississippi schools and Arkansas feels right for permanent opponents,
Well I think Texas A&M does not want to be tied to Texas. Arkansas being in a POD with Texas would give you all the game in Texas every other year, which I thought was something lots of older Arkansas fans missed from the old SWC days.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:26 pm to skullhawk
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And no way schools want sit at home while another team with the same conf records go to Atlanta. How do you avoid that?
It happens every year in the BCS/CFP era at the national level. This is even simpler as you would have a predetermined criteria to determine who goes. Head to Head is obviously the first tiebreaker, followed by CFP ranking, which makes the most sense.
Also, you would indeed want all conferences to follow this format, and before teams in all conferences add a second week of conference playoffs, it makes more sense to just add another weak of national playoffs. And in that scenario, you are opening up the possibility of three SEC teams making the CFP.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:38 pm to Basura Blanco
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Head to Head is obviously the first tiebreaker, followed by CFP ranking, which makes the most sense.
You’ll be fortunate to have a head to head matchup in a 16 team league and hell no to the cfp ranking. The cfp is awful and would always favor Bama. Settle it on the field. Nuke one of the body bag games from the schedule to create the open week.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:39 pm to jbraua
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Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:43 pm to Basura Blanco
Aggie’s do not have the stroke to stop this if it is happening, they do have stroke to say we are not playing them every year.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 10:15 pm to beaverfever
I can kind of see that, but it is more balanced with A&M instead of Arkansas. LSU would almost be automatic winning each year with Arkansas, Ole Miss, and State.
Posted on 7/22/21 at 10:51 pm to jbraua
Arkansas
LSU
Missouri
Miss st
Ole miss
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas AM
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Play the 7 teams in your division then play 2 or 3 teams from cross division. You can then play 2-3 OOC games taking you to a total of 12 games.
Then top team from each division plays for SECCG
Then playoffs. If playoffs go to 8-12 teams you reduce regular season games by 1 or 2 games
LSU
Missouri
Miss st
Ole miss
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas AM
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Play the 7 teams in your division then play 2 or 3 teams from cross division. You can then play 2-3 OOC games taking you to a total of 12 games.
Then top team from each division plays for SECCG
Then playoffs. If playoffs go to 8-12 teams you reduce regular season games by 1 or 2 games
Posted on 7/23/21 at 8:07 am to twk
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Because a "pod" is not a division. Two pods make a division, and you would rotate those every year.
One year, the two divisions would be
Division 1: Pod A + Pod B
Division 2: Pod C + Pod D
The next year the divisions would be
Division 1: Pod A + Pod C
Division 2: Pod B + Pod D
The it would be
Division 1: Pod A + Pod D
Division 2: Pod B + Pod C
That's ridiculous. But I guess they want to make sure everyone plays everyone on a regular schedule.
If following the NFL, you'd play your 3 pod opponents, 4 from another pod and 2 teams from the remaining pods based on your finish in the previous season. This way you're guaranteed to play everyone every 3 years and host every 6. But, there's no way that the #1 teams in the pods that have the most influence would be okay with having to play all of the other pod winners in a year.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 8:44 am to Klingler7
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Maybe I am the old man on the lawn, but why does the SEC keep fricking with shite every year ? Do we really need 16 teams in a conference ? Damn ! LSU gonna play the top 10 teams in the nation ? No team is gonna survive that gauntlet. Screw Sankey.
Well, this really isn't the SECs doing. Texas and OU reached out. And it's not really up to Sankey. The decision would be left up to the member schools. The SEC could pass on this, but they would just go to one of the other conferences. The fact of the matter is 16 team super conferences is likely inevitable. Also, the money would be too good to pass up. That money would benefit all parties involved including the current SEC members.
Posted on 7/23/21 at 8:44 am to Klingler7
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Do we really need 16 teams in a conference ?
The “WHY?” is real simple. If the SEC doesn’t take them the ACC or B10 will bc the B12 is HISTORY!!
As soon as 1 Conf (SEC) expands to 16+ the others will be forced to as well. From a financial & non-geographical standpoint OU, Tx, OSU, ND & maybe now Clemson are just about the only non-SEC Teams worthy of even considering.
Basically this is the SEC making the first move towards becoming a Super Conf, which seems inevitable now.
This post was edited on 7/23/21 at 8:50 am
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