re: With permanent opponents set, who do you want LSU to play next year?

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ive heard it will be your permanent 3 plus the teams you didnt play the last two years. Some teams will have an extra opponent they played.

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If that were the case, LSU would have:
- Arkansas
- Ole Miss
- Texas A&M
- Texas
- Auburn
- Missouri
- Georgia
- Tennessee
- Kentucky

Which would mean our “alternate” schedule (assuming they rotate all non-permanent opponents in the same season) would be:

- Arkansas
- Ole Miss
- Texas A&M
- Alabama
- Florida
- Vanderbilt
- South Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Mississippi State

Depending on how the home/away splits worked out, that would actually be fairly balanced for LSU. The schedule with UGA, Texas, and Tennessee is probably harder at the top, but the “alternate” is probably more balanced top to bottom. (ETA: On second thought nah, I think UGA/Texas /Tenn is definitely a tougher schedule. But it could be a lot worse.)

It would be pretty wild for teams like Texas, Ole Miss, and Tennessee who have had cakewalk SEC schedules the past 2 years though. Texas for example would have to play:
- Texas A&M
- Oklahoma
- Arkansas
- LSU
- Alabama
- Tennessee
- Ole Miss
- South Carolina
- Missouri

That’s a fricking meat grinder of a schedule. Then they’d go back to the baby soft schedule they were gifted in year 1, for the alternate seasons.