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gatormarc

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  1. Yup. You got me looking back and it seems that smaller conferences with round robin schedules was the standard for about half of the power conferences for decades. One one extreme, you have the SEC, which never did it. On the other extreme, Texas was always a member of a round-robin schedule except for the 15 years of the original Big 12 setup. It sounds like they are struggling to balance rivalries with SOS. The closest I could see to what you having above would be if they really stuck with "rivalries are the most important" which would give Tennessee something like Bama, Vandy and Kentucky while Auburn would get Bama, Georgia and Florida. They've already been proactively reminding everyone that this is only 1/3 of your conference schedule and that this is probably just an 8 year agreement and that they will reevaluate after a couple rotations.
  2. Honestly, I'm not sure if Kentucky has ever played 10 P5 teams in the regular season.
  3. Definitely a bad combo of always being the largest major conference while playing the fewest conference games. It sounds like most of the SEC is good with the 9 game schedule and the extra $$ it brings. Kentucky is the loudest program having gone public with their 8 game push. They want to drop Louisville if we go to a 9 game schedule, so I think they are pushing the SEC to drop the P5 OOC requirement as a concession to give their vote.
  4. As soon as I'm allowed more reactions, you've got a hook 'em coming your way.
  5. There are certainly examples of teams rarely playing each other like above but there's also been plenty of interplay between the Big 6, but they were often locked into annual series rather than rotating. Three of the Big 6 have traditional rivalries with a 3/5 of the other "Big 6": Florida - Georgia, Auburn, LSU Alabama - Alabama, Tennessee, LSU Auburn - Alabama, Georgia, Florida LSU - Florida, Alabama, (Ole Miss) Georgia - Auburn, Florida, (Vanderbilt) Tennessee - Alabama, (Kentucky, Vanderbilt) Divisional play evened it out since it created Florida/Tennessee, Georgia/Tennessee, and LSU/Auburn but at the loss of Florida/Auburn once the league went to 6-1-2 format in 2003, guaranteeing everyone played at least 3/5 of the other Big 6 members. How does that compare historically to other conferences?
  6. I think it might be a case of you bad lucking into the outlier that is Alabama Football. Bama used to, on average, play more SEC games than everyone else. Prior to the 80s, there were no set number of conference games. They would often schedule 1 or 2 more conference games than everyone else. At one point they played 8 conference games at the same year Tulane only played 5. In the early 80s, the league locked down to everyone playing the same number... so a couple of their games vs Ole Miss were actually out of conference matchups. Thanks for the welcome.
  7. Long time lurker, first time poster. Had to create an account to point out that this is 100% incorrect. The 10 Team SEC played a 6 game conference schedule up until 1988 and played a 7 game schedule from 1989-1991. I'm fairly certain everyone had 5 permanent rivals and the other 4 teams would rotate with the final 1 or 2 games, and there was usually 5-7 years between home-home series.
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