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This is not right aggy has played LSU more than OU Oklahoma has played Mizzou more than anyone other than Texas Arkansas has more history with LSU and Ole Miss than OU

Only conference champs can get byes (this was the Notre Dame rule). So only the winner of the SECCG will get that.

Original Big 12 had 7 AAU members. The new Big 12 will only have 1 (Kansas). Kansas is still one of, if not the top, academic school in the Big 12.

Hey Einstein, grouped rivalries in sets of 4 are PODS, and pods are not happening. Also who gives a fuck about Mizzou? Do you really think Mizzou/OU would generate any significant amount of revenue? The new SEC has 8 programs with titles in the BCS/CFP era, 3 with titles pre BCS, and 5 with no titles. Mizzou is in that last group and doesn’t have any history (outside of Oklahoma) that they can leverage within the SEC which makes them fairly unimportant in the grand scheme of things. Mizzou will be rivals with Oklahoma due to their Big8/12 history, and at least one school somewhat geographically close to them (think Arkansas, Kentucky, Vandy) and whoever else is left over that needs a 3rd rival (like South Carolina or Mississippi St).

They’ve already said East/West split is (like pods) not happening. It 3-6-6 9 game model or 1-7-7 8 game model. 9 game seems like the only true option. Your rivalries are also woefully unbalanced and incomplete. You have 8 power teams in the new SEC that all have a title in the BCS/CFP era: Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, and even though they don’t have a title you have to include aggy for 9. No team will have 3 permanent rivalries from this group, and all these will play 2 from this group, and those not in this group will play at least 1 from this group. Alabama - Auburn/Tennessee Auburn - Alabama/Georgia Georgia - Auburn/Florida Texas - Oklahoma/aggy aggy - Texas/LSU Florida - Georgia/ ???? (TN/LSU/OU) Tennessee - Alabama/ ???? (UF/LSU/OU) LSU - aggy/ ???? (UF/OU/TN) Oklahoma - Texas/ ???? (LSU/TN/UF) then you fill in the third rival for the teams above from the remaining Alabama - Mississippi St Auburn - Mississippi St Georgia - Kentucky Texas - Arkansas aggy - Arkansas Florida - South Carolina Tennessee - Vandy LSU - Ole Miss Oklahoma - Mizzou then mix in what’s left OleMiss/Mississippi St OleMiss/Vandy Mizzou/Arkansas Mizzou/Kentucky Kentucky/South Carolina Vandy/South Carolina Again I’m not saying this will be the schedule 100% (fairly confident it won’t be this) but something like this will be laid out so that everyone has at least 1 big time rival and you don’t have teams like UK/Mizzou/MSU with no rivals in the top group of schools.

I’m going to pistol whip the next mother fucker that talks about pods. PODS ARE NOT HAPPENING.

The SEC has added 5 schools in the West and only a single school in the East. South Carolina was always going to be the odd ball. Basically every school (that has more than one) will get 2 true rivals and the SEC will likely assign the third. SC’s most played SEC games are Georgia (74), Florida (42), Tennessee (40), Kentucky (32) so they’ll likely get UGA/UF and a rando school like Mizzou as their #3. Florida’s are Georgia (99), Auburn (84), Kentucky (72), LSU (68) so they’ll likely get UGA/LSU and have to deal with SC as their #3. Florida is one of those schools in an odd position in the conference but I’m almost positive they’ll have UGA and SC as rivals, but #3 depends on how it shakes out will the other lineups and could be LSU, Tennessee, or possibly even Oklahoma (worst case scenario for them).

Tennessee has played Alabama, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky over 100 times. They have only played Florida a little over 50 times. Likely that rivalry will not continue. Florida will play Georgia and South Carolina and some other school (LSU or OU because the SEC wants more top rated games) annually and then trade playing Tennessee annually to playing Tenn and Auburn (their other lost rival) every other year.

No divisions (or single division) is what has been basically decided per reports. Two options last reported. They want to make sure they play home/away at every school in a 4 year period. 3-6-6 or 9 game model (you have 3 annual rivals and rotate the other schools on an every other year basis) 1-7-7 or 8 game model (only 1 annual rivalry) Smaller schools (without a ton of traditional rivals) reportedly want the 8 games (SC, MSU, UK, Vandy) to keep their losses low and give them a better chance for bowls. The large schools with many rivals want the 9 games so a school like Bama doesn’t have to pick between Auburn and Tennessee, or Georgia between Auburn and Florida. Plus it also means more money from ESPN.

ACC deal runs through 2036 (they extended it and their GOR to get their ACC Network), and it’s dirt cheap all thing considered. Only other game in town is the PAC10 and they’ve already said they won’t pay them more than the B12 so Amazon appears to be in the lead for 90% of the P10 rights with ESPN only getting a partial tier one package for fb. And yes, Texas and Oklahoma and the SEC wouldn’t have gone through all this unless ESPN was committed to this move. They’ll pay.

I think banning FCS opponents and requiring that everyone play at least 1 P5+ND opponents would be good enough. Sure, you’ll have some that try to schedule Rutgers, Kansas, and Duke but at least set the floor and don’t let teams completely phone it in by filling up with FCS, CUSA, and MAC teams. Texas can play 1 P5 team, Rice/UTSA/UTEP, and another rando G5 team like ULL, Wyoming, or FIU and have a fairly strong schedule.

aggy is going to fight tooth and nail to keep LSU as one of their rivals and obviously Texas would be their other big one. LSU is hosting aggy this year, so in 2024 LSU would play at Kyle field. No way they host both Texas and LSU one year and then host neither the next year. Either aggy will have to play 2 games in Death Valley in 23 & 24 (which I doubt they’d like to do) or they’ll have to play us in Austin first. Texas will have aggy and Arkansas as our rivals (plus OU at Dallas) so similar to the above we won’t host them both in the same year so we’ll have to play one at home and one away in 24. Also now with Texas playing AT Michigan in 2024, our home OOC schedule will suck in 24&25 and the SEC (who will be getting more money from ESPN when we join) will help us off set that. I predict we’ll get a front loaded home schedule in 24-25 (with aggy in 24), and then have a slightly ‘lesser’ home schedule 26-27 when we have a better OOC game lined up. The only thing we have to play first is at LSU to give them that make up game that got canceled due to COVID. I see our SEC schedule (without OU) looking something like this: 24- UGA, Aub, Mizzou, aggy, @Ark, @LSU, @UK, @MSU 25- Bama, Tenn, SC, Ark, @aggy, @UF, @Ole Miss, @Vandy 26- LSU, MSU, UK, aggy, @Ark, @UGA, @Aub, @Mizzou 27- UF, Ole Miss, Vandy, Ark, @aggy, @Bama, @Tenn, @SC Any way you slice it, this is way better than any Big 12 home schedule we’d get.

We got richer because many families now have 2 incomes. As a result of working moms daycare is more in demand than ever. Higher demand for daycare and low supply has significantly increased the cost of raising a child in their early years. Obviously this is a complex issue but the higher cost is a true metric for many. https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/how-much-would-you-pay-for-childcare-for-your-career/?itm_source=parsely-api

Yep they can have Mizzou but they have to pair them with a better 3rd game than MSU. The two models I like have their 3rd game as either LSU or Florida.

So you want to schedule like Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU? or like Mississippi St, Missouri, Ole Miss? Don’t be a pussy.

You want to schedule like Georgia, here is their out of conference schedule in 2026: 09/05 - UCLA 09/12 - WKU 09/19 - at Louisville 11/28 - Georgia Tech

Next year: Texas plays Michigan Alabama plays Wisconsin Arkansas plays Oklahoma St Auburn plays Cal Florida plays Miami and FSU Georgia plays Clemson and Georgia Tech Kentucky plays Louisville LSU plays USC and UCLA Mississippi St plays Arizona St Missouri plays Boston College Ole Miss plays Wake Forest South Carolina play UNC and Clemson Vanderbilt plays Virginia Tech aggy plays Notre Dame Tennessee and Oklahoma were playing OOC before they canceled So yes don’t be a fucking pussy.

$50 million is less than the $80 million we contractually owed even if we waited until 2025.

With all due respect, don’t be a pussy.

Oof home OOC schedule will suck for a few years… 2023 09/02 - Rice 09/09 - at Alabama 09/16 - Wyoming 2024 08/31 - Colorado State 09/07 - at Michigan 09/14 - UTSA 2025 08/30 - at Ohio State 09/06 - San Jose State 09/13 - UTEP

Should add Louisiana Tech and Georgia Southern…then the SEC would dominate! /s

The cloning labs in Western South Dakota will be fully operational by 2040. The US will be fine.

How about they spend some money and bury the damn lines at the most tree impacted neighborhoods that way when there is an outage they have less to worry about. Use some of the sweet sweet bike lane homeless hotel money…

First, I wasn’t making a judgment call, just stating a fact but the issue is far more complicated than many here are acknowledging. Teacher’s retirement sets most of these rules in order to protect the pensions for all teachers. While the legislature can butt In occasionally, most of the times when they do, it’s with the support of the TRS. Allowing teachers to double dip puts the pension fund at risk which is why it’s discouraged, but even then, sitting out 1 year before you can double dip isn’t exactly a crazy stipulation if you ask me. I have 2 family members currently double dipping as we speak and a third about to take their year off so they can.

It’s somewhere off 2222