SEC scheduling question

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This alabama schedule for 2013 is a joke - this would even it out some.

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That whole freaking sacrosanct unbreakable "rivalry" with Tennesee deal is such a load of crap.

I'm willing to concede that even.

It's the other game that concerns me. Make the other game be scheduled on the basis of finish in the SEC. Similar to how the NFL does it with in-conference games.

Damn.. pretty good point.. I'm not sure how no one has ever thought of that before

in case of tie, there would be some tiebreaker... i.e. 1&2 flip, 5&6 flip based on h2h or most recent last opponent, etc.

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That whole freaking sacrosanct unbreakable "rivalry" with Tennesee deal is such a load of crap.

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This. This game is supposedly s huge rivalry yet no one nationally cares. No one else in the SEC cares. It's contrived and Bama has AU when it needs a rival.

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This alabama schedule for 2013 is a joke -

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That's the whole point.

when we had less teams things were more equitable. now it seems like georgia and bama skate most years. there are big stakes in sec football and bama missing florida, georgia and usc is bull shite. same with georgia missing lsu, bama and good team #3.

For 2013, the right thing to do was make LSU play Kentucky and Alabama travel to Georgia.

Honest, and probably dumb, question,and I'm sure the answer is somehow 'money', but:

Why can't the SEC teams all play each other except for maybe one OOC game? Yes, I know we now have too many teams, so go with play 11 conference opponents, leaving two out each year, rotating.

Or, even better, play all 13 conference opponents and ditch the conference championship game - that way, no one 'sits home on the couch', you still get a conf champ, no whining about who plays the harder teams, and one more game for everyone instead of just the two top teams. I mean, you're asking some teams to play 13 games - why not all of them?

I know - no OOC games won't fly with some schools where they have an in-state rival (UF, FSU, UGA, GaTech).... maybe they can have a preseason exhibition...haha.

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It's simple:

8 game schedule. No divisions. No 'permanent' opponents.

Each school would play:

3 teams each year for four years

5 of the 10 other schools would rotate onto the schedule for a home and home for two years

5 remaining schools rotate home and home for the next two years in this four-year cycle.

Top 2 records go to Atlanta (tiebreakers would be necessary)

Then, switch out the three four-year schools and start over.

In this system, each school would play every school in the conference at least twice every four years. To placate Bama, TN, Aub, and GA, the longest any school would go without playing the other would be two years.

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Unfortunately, because of the NCAA rules on having a conference championship game this won't work. The rules are that the conference must be seperated into divisions and the teams in those divisions must play a round robin schedule against everyone in their division. So by having two 7 team divisions, 6 of every team's games are already set in stone, the only one's movable are the cross-divisional games.