re: The bigger injustice is the scheduling

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tennessee was better than florida for a long time,

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We're not talking about the 1950s when everyone played 6 conference games.

Since the conference expanded and went to the permanent opposite divisional opponent format in 1991, Tennessee has beat Florida 5 times in 28 games. Florida has been the better team since expansion and Florida has been LSU's permanent opponent since expansion.

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Targeting will change when someone from bama is forced to miss a conference title game or a playoff game.

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there fixed it for ya

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So the Georgia game didn’t matter?

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Correct. You know how standings work. If Bama wins its 7 other games, and LSU goes 6-1, the LSU-Bama game decides it. This entire thread is pathetic.

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If they’d played and beaten Vanderbilt, guess what they would have still been doing the first Saturday of December?

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Come on, man. I'm trying to be respectful.

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Come on, man. I'm trying to be respectful.

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I hear ya; my bad. But “screwed” in this instance comes with no consequence. The Georgia game didn’t cost LSU any trophies that year.

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This entire thread is pathetic.

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What’s pathetic is you still don’t understand the point being made. One team gets an easier road to that 6-1 or 7-0 than the other. So one can afford to lose it and still play for a championship.The other can’t.

It’s impossible to say it hasn’t affected any outcomes because bama has never had to play those 2 potentially season ruining games like we have, just as we never get 2 cupcakes from the east like they do.

Wow, must be nice to only play one of them each year.

But don’t get me wrong, We do like playing big games. We don’t like the fact that some schools don’t have to.

This sounds a lot like "Why doesn't Alabama play other teams that can maybe beat them because we can't beat them ourselves?"

Speaking of years ago, it should be pointed out that scheduling has been an issue with Alabama ever since Bryant has been there. Alabama managed to schedule an extra conference game starting in the late 50’s. Go check for yourself. What does it matter you might ask ? It meant that Alabama could win the conference outright if they finished 6-1 while a team with a typical 6 game conference schedule could also have one conference loss and be behind Alabama in percentage points. This Alabama inequality has been going on since the formation of the conference. That’s my 2 cents

Good point. It’s very rare that a team or player is so dominant over the rest of the field without some underlying advantages . Whether it’s UCLA basketball under wooden, Barry Bonds, or bama’s sec bias lasting for decades.