re: The bigger injustice is the scheduling

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So you're advocating things need to be changed IN LSU'S FAVOR simply because they are good now relative to the early 90's. What happens if you flip Tenn and UF, then 16 years later UF falls off a cliff while UT is a powerhouse again? Are we going to cry "unfair" once more?

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No dummy, im not asking for special treatment, Im asking for others to not have special treatment. If you rotate BOTH cross division teams equally, nobody can complain about the schedule. if you keep one the same, then teams that have a weak cross division opponent are getting an advantage. And those that are matched with a good program get hosed. Sure its cyclical.... i'll hold my breath while Vandy builds a powerhouse.

And yes it helps the strength of schedule, but oops....SOS went out with the original BCS formula. Now its all Wins and committee's eye test and who can beat up on mediocre teams the most. Hmmm. wonder who that will favor.

If SOS was worth anything, I wouldn't complain. But its not anymore. Another reason why LSU should push to change this antiquated scheduling format.

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this was actually put to a vote not long ago (since we went to 14 teams).

13 schools voted to keep it.
1 voted to change.

let that sink in for a moment.
Tennessee wants to get their shite pushed in by Bama.
Auburn is perfectly fine with getting a solid UGA team every year and vice versa
Florida wants to play us every year.

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This is 100% false. Check your facts. LSU and three other schools want them scrapped.

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SEC chancellors, presidents and athletic directors met Sunday in Atlanta and voted on the matter. They scrapped the idea of moving to a nine-game schedule, but school presidents voted 10-4 on keeping the permanent cross-division game

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"This is the real Bama bias".


Scheduling is an issue but is not the real "Bama bias" by a long shot. You are way off

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I explained earlier why it benefits every team but LSU. We are supposed to be ok with this?

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He was wrong about that vote. It wasn't 13-1, it was 10-4.

LOL! AU has a built in bye as well before the Iron B. if you bothered to look. Plus UF has been a total disaster except for a couple years under McElwain when they were just pretty good about like UT. BTW those 2 years we played them and beat them like a borrowed mule in the SEC. And we have faced UF 6 times in the last 10 years and are 6 and 0! About the same as we are against LSU except we have whipped them like they stole something most years. We have UGA in 2020 and played them IN ATHENS in 2015 and wore that arse out. Then played them again last year and won. We have played them twice before you did this year. We have played Georgia 4 times over the past 9 years and stand 4-0 with some beatdowns. So we are 10 and ZERO against the best the east has to offer in recent years! LOL!

I know Tennessee is their permanent opponent, but it seems as if Bama plays Vandy/Mizzou every 2 years or so while Georgia and Florida only appear on their schedule once a decade.

It always baffled me but its starting to make sense to me why this has never been made a huge deal. A big portion of LSU fans don't even understand that we are getting screwed. Theyre still complaining about a specific missed holding penalty from 3 years ago, while the Bama alums are still drawing up favorable schedules every year. They'll be complaining about Devin White 10 years from now while we're still playing florida/Georgia instead of Tennessee/Mizzou. If we cant even all recognize the big problem, it'll never be fixed.

Maybe you will get it after we:

Beat bama, then lose to them when they backdoor into the playoffs again.

or lose to Bama but cant backdoor our way into the playoffs because we played a couple extra top 10 teams from the east instead of cupcakes Tennessee and Mizzou.

Maybe then. But I doubt it.

So do I. And I liked playing Georgia. I just wish Alabama could share that same experience.

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I would suggest that the method the NFL uses, where a team plays the cross division team that finishes in the equivalent position as one opponent. For the second team you play the one that finished opposite the previous year. So West #1 plays East #1 & #6. #2 plays #2 & #5 and so on. Of course last years performance may not be a good way to account for how good the team is this year but it is probably better than random selections.

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that's not terrible, but I think college is a different game since you have new players every year and not trying to keep parity like the NFL. Its too easy just to rotate all cross division foes. Then every 4 year player can do a home and away with every SEC team. Every fan can visit every stadium every few years. And most importantly no team gets a huge advantage or disadvantage when other teams suck or go on a hot streak for a decade or 2. If those 4 teams (bama, UT, UGA, Au) want to keep their rivalry games, they can do it as an out of conference matchup. Then the SEC schedules are more fair and rivalries are intact. Makes too much sense, and that's how you can tell there's an underlying motive for keeping it as is. or maybe its just a coincidence the SEC schedule makers wear Crimson on Saturdays.