It's a new world with the ozempic type drugs.Kills the appetite and melts off the pounds. I figure Dez and Jitoboh are on it. Also will make summer ballooning a thing of the past.
The issue here is that the more SEC games you add the fewer home games you have. Schools really need to have revenue from 7 home games each season. Schools who financed stadium renovation projects have typically been required by their lender to have 7 home games. If you add the traditional OOC rivalry games like UF/FSU, it makes it even harder. Schools will still need to be able to play a couple of weaker teams that don't require a home and home series. I'm not so sure the 12 team playoff changes much in terms of regular season. There will only be a small handful of teams who's season gets extended by the new 12 team playoff. They could start the playoff earlier during the bowl season and/or push the finals a week later. I just don't see the 12 game playoff really affecting what they do with the regular season. I do think they'll extend the SEC season to 13 regular season games and likely go to a 9 game conference schedule, but I don't believe they'll go beyond that in the foreseeable future. Also the trend seems to be doing away with the divisions within the conference. So with a 13 game schedule with 9 conference games, for UF there would be 4 SEC Homes games, 1 neutral site game (UGA), 4 SEC road games. That would give us 4 non conference games to play 3 at home, so probably FSU and a major OOC opponent every other year and 2 cupcakes. That's the most likely scenario I see. As far as the rivalries, there are still a handful of key SEC rivalries (UF/UGA, Auburn/Bama, UGA/Auburn, Egg Bowl), and I certainly think they'll try to keep those huge ones in place, but some of the others seem to be a lot less significant. I think they can probably keep most of those big rivalry games intact with 2-3 common opponents for each team and rotating the rest.