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  1. https://www.secsports.com/article/35857432/seven-sec-sports-future-scheduling-formats-approved They approved 7 sports formats last month for the SEC. Only football, volleyball and post-season baseball remain. "...Regular season schedule and championship formats have previously been approved in men's basketball, women's basketball, soccer, men's and women's tennis and softball. The current regular season and championship formats in the sports of men's and women's cross country, equestrian, men's and women's golf and men's and women's outdoor track & field accommodate the addition of Oklahoma and Texas without additional adjustments. Still to be determined are regular season formats in football and volleyball and the post-season tournament format in baseball. Baseball Regular season: Each season a team will play a three-game series against two permanent opponents and eight rotating opponents, for a total of 30 conference games. Standings will be kept in a single-division format. SEC Baseball Tournament: Format to be determined. Gymnastics Regular season: Each school sponsoring a gymnastics team will meet each other member institution at least once a year on an alternating home and away basis, consistent with the current process. An additional week will be required to accommodate nine teams. SEC Gymnastics Championships: The championship will move from a one-day event to a two-day format. The semifinals will consist of two sessions of four teams each. The top seed will receive a bye to the championship. The top seed plus the two session winners in the semifinals and the team with the next highest score in the semifinals will advance to a four-team championship. Swimming & Diving (Men's and Women's) Regular season: The Conference Office will schedule two dual meets per program and each institution is responsible for establishing the dates and times of the meets, consistent with the current process. SEC Swimming & Diving Championships: Same as current format with updated facility requirements. Indoor Track & Field (Men's and Women's) Regular season: Each school sponsoring an indoor track and field team will schedule teams from other Conference institutions at its own discretion, consistent with the current process. SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships: The championship will move from a two-day event to a three-day format. Volleyball Regular season: Format to be determined. SEC Volleyball Tournament: A Conference tournament will be conducted for the first time since 2005. All Conference teams will participate. Still to be determined is whether the SEC Volleyball Tournament will resume following the 2024 season or following the 2025 season."
  2. https://www.si.com/college/alabama/bamacentral/sec-commissioner-greg-sankey-elaborates-on-potential-football-schedule-changes-blackwell Sankey talks about the SEC schedule in 2024. Does his best not to say anything, but reading between the lines: They have been studying it a lot and figuring out how to balance the schedule. They expect to make a decision at their meetings in Destin in a month. Divisions are going away. They haven't decided between 8 and 9 games. They are leaning towards 9. They think 3 protected rivals can be a lot more balanced than they have now with divisions. But they are still considering 1 protected rival. They for some reason are not considering 2 protected rivals. It isn't decided necessarily that it will be 1-7 or 3-6. It still could be 1-8 or maybe even 3-5. Personally, I think 1 protected rival is a non-starter for Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida and detrimental to the conference.
  3. Notice I put quotes around "join." You add 8 MWC schools and you have "joined" the MWC.
  4. Rutgers is in the NYC metro area. Syracuse or Buffalo in upstate NY don't do as much.
  5. I don't know if they do either, but they will take a huge paycut to "join" the MWC. They may accept enough of a discount to get the ACC or Big 12 to bite.
  6. Under your scenario, I imagine the 4 remaining do anything they can to get into either the ACC or Big 12 as opposed to effectively joining the MWC.
  7. UW and Oregon means the Big 10 owns the west coast. They also scoop up the only two remaining western schools with a reasonable shot at an MNC (unless CU resumes its early 70s, 90s glory). They scoop up one of the 3 top 13 states (NC, VA the others) not already in the P2. After USC and UCLA, it just makes too much sense.
  8. Oregon and Washington are not going to lock themselves in to 2036 with the Big looming in the next 7 years. They also aren't going to sign a 3 year's revenues exit fee.
  9. Really. Very delusional. And if he wants to talk historic, Baylor-TCU has been played 118 times despite the post SWC gap. Believe they were 2nd place among FBS at the time the SWC broke up. "The Game" has only been played 116 times.
  10. Well they had this before and someone claimed it had to do with the Comcast underpayment.
  11. 365 interviews Jason Scheer. No news, just his interpretation of things. About 15 minutes with first 8 or so on realignment. Rest general Pac 12.
  12. Not a stretch with WVU. Virginia Tech was VPI and not a major in the 60s. By late 80s they were a major. They were kind of transitioning up in the 70s. They had left the Southern Conference by the late 60s.
  13. Well I think some intensity has been lost with the big NFL $$s. How often do you see a RB run out of bounds and not get the extra yard for the first down, even in the 4th quarter? There are no Earl Campbells.
  14. Georgia lost QB Aaron Murray in a routine sack against Kentucky in the next to last game of the 2013 season. They weren't playing for a championship that year, but injuries can happen any time.
  15. UK isn't an Ohio St., Texas or USC. Talk to Alabama playing FCS opponents. Vandy, MSU and UK get a pass. Alabama's 2009 team went unbeaten playing 8 SEC games and Chattanooga, North Texas, FIU and Virginia Tech. They usually don't even play good FCS teams. The last couple of years have been Mercer and Austin Peay.
  16. Well UK's best team since the 50s, 1977, went 10-1 and played 6 SEC games, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Penn St. and, their one loss, Baylor. That was pre- P5, but it was all 11 majors.
  17. They could have had Texas in 1993 had they simply taken the sand aggies as baggage. OU probably follows.
  18. Well in 1990 all they had to do was get 10 yes votes and they got Texas without baggage. Stanford voted no. Changed their mind later, but too late.
  19. Although he did apologize for deleting it and claimed his source asked him to delete the tweet!
  20. Well Fox called it a signing bonus, probably for their own accounting purposes, but it was basically giving them the new rate early.
  21. You're right about ESPN (and Fox), but not about the LHN in 2010. ESPN and Fox promised the Big 12 schools they would make as much as the Pac and agreed to renew early. They all got a "bonus" from Fox effectively giving them a higher contract 2 years before it expired. The LHN was still thought to be about $3 million a year until 5 months later when ESPN outbid Fox (who was the favorite up to that point). Powers, Dodds and Plonsky never mentioned the LHN in their press conference explaining why they weren't going. This LHN being a deciding factor is something Pac officials made up years later to make themselves look better. Kind of like the OU/OSU/TT Pac discussions in 2011. Both sides told totally different stories on why it fell through to make themselves look better. Not sure whether I believe Boren or the Pac people on that one.
  22. Actually some of the schools (LSU for instance) sometimes only played 5 conference games. Some played 6. Some would play 7. Some schools never played. For example Georgia and Tennessee didn't play between 1937 and 1968 and only played 8 times from 1969-1992 when they ended up in the same division. Georgia has only played Miss. St. 26 times in history and only once before 1950. Georgia and LSU didn't play between 1953 and 1978. They've still only played 33 times and 5 of those were in SEC ccgs. LSU Vanderbilt only played once between 1951 and 1976. They've only played 33 times and 15 were 1951 or earlier. The schedule was really thrown out of kilter when Georgia Tech and Tulane left in the 60s. Some schools played them nearly every year. The SEC was 12 teams from 1940-1964 when GT left and Tulane left in 1966. In 1963 with 12 teams, two played 8 games, 6 played 7 games and 4 played 6 games. In 1967 two played 7 games, 6 played 6 games and 2 played 5 games.
  23. Everybody already recruits Florida. A couple years ago I saw the numbers. The ACC had the most signed freshman from Florida. The SEC was tied with the Big 10 for 2nd. one recruit fewer than the ACC. Georgia supplied the most SEC recruits. And the bottom half of the SEC isn't really competing with FSU for recruits. Georgia, Alabama, LSU do.
  24. I don't think there is any doubt they take them. They want all the big dogs in their own pen. There are 6 big dogs left. UW, Oregon and Notre Dame are not joining the SEC. That leaves FSU, Clemson and Miami. At one point FSU had more value in the ACC than in the SEC. But now, big matchups matter more. You see it in the ratings. They add more to the SEC than to the ACC. And with the rivalries, that offsets the state duplication, so I don't see them going to the Big 10 if the SEC is an option. Clemson is the closest school to Georgia other than Georgia Tech. That has always been a pretty fierce rivalry. Just hasn't been played much since the SEC went to 8 conference games. They recruit all the same people. I don't see the SEC as a conference that is worried about competition.
  25. As I recall they pretty much had it done in early June, but then had to work out all the coordination between the different media companies.
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