SEC Scheduling -- No More Divisions - Still 8 Games

Not buying that's the final setup.

 

It looks as good as any I’ve seen, and an article that I read said there would be more discussion and had to be adopted by the schools, but it may be pretty damn close. I don’t see it possibly any better than that everybody can’t get what they want.

 

Support for nine-game SEC football schedule dwindling with Alabama mulling vote for eight-game format

The 8 game SEC schedule would be 1 permanent - 7 rotating.

The 9 game SEC schedule would be 3 permanent - 6 rotating.

 

Good grief are that many SEC teams in love with the yearly FCS team?

 

Both proposals are straight garbage. It would be so simple to implement a two division 9 game schedule with no permanent cross division rivals and with a "real" SEC championship game, but they refuse to consider it.

 

Sankey is a POS Saban lackey... Screwing the Gators every which way they can.

 

All of the SEC commissioners have been Bama lackeys, but at least Roy Kramer set up a system that greatly benefited every member. Now the tools in charge are tearing it down for no good reason that I can point to.

 

There are now just 2 schedule types being bandied by the SEC Commissioner and his friends. One is the 9 game SEC schedule and the other is the 8 game SEC schedule.

The 9 game schedule is a 3-6-6 set up that guaranties 3 permanent yearly teams, this is where we lose all but three annual teams the we used to play. And the SEC gives us the hardest schedule in the conference with Oklahoma making our permanent 3 annual games. With 6 other team bi-annually.

The other one is an 8 game SEC schedule with a 1-7-7 set up where we only get one permanent annual rival team and play 7 other teams bi-annually. If it comes to only having 1 team as an annual team then I hope it's UGA. I guess it's better than the 3 permanent teams like UGA, USCs and OK... Where the hail did Oklahoma come into the picture for an annual team? That has to be Saban's idea... freaking clown has far too much power for an old soon to expire... err... retire coach.

I think it's completely dishonest that we have to blow-up our traditional 2 division set-up conference to play every SEC every other year... somehow we are now we're worrying about having to play every team in the SEC when for years UGA rarely played Bama and that was A-okay with the commissioner and others. Now all of a sudden we have to scrap traditional rivals and scheduling so we can play every team every other year. I don't like it.

It's sad we can't just make a 9, 10 or 11 SEC games schedule ( l loved the all SEC, covid year, schedule) and keep the 2 divisions instead of BLOWING UP everyone's traditional annual games.

 

It will be interesting to see if they go with the 8 game schedules which they choose to blow up: The deep South's oldest rivalry OR one of the two remaining traditional neutral site games in College Football (no I don't count the Arky-A&M game as traditional).

 

Chances for 8-game SEC schedule, or not voting, have gone up

“Failing that help from ESPN (more $$$), however, more than a few SEC schools are unwilling to give up the attendance money they get from extra home games. And yes, bowl eligibility is a factor too. So in essence it becomes a divide between the schools already scheduling 10 or more power conference games per year, and those that haven’t been.”

 

And we would probably get Georgia and Alabama would get Auburn. Alabama probably just doesn’t want any more real games.

 

If it’s at the cost of having a home game every other year against a real team, or having some game that should not even be sanctioned, I vote for the Home game every other year

 

Examining the SEC's eight- or nine-game conference schedule conundrum entering this week's spring meetings

“For most in the league, it would be more difficult to win an additional SEC game as opposed to a fourth nonconference game. Unbalanced schedules are another issue. With an eight-game slate, some teams will naturally have a more difficult permanent opponent than others. In a nine-game schedule, teams would play five away conference games to only four at home every other year. That extra home game can be worth millions in ticket sales alone.”

I sure hope not wanting to give up a cupcake game for another SEC game doesn’t prevent the move to a 9 game SEC league schedule. That would be really weak, imho.

 

I’m in the minority with this but, I’m not against scheduling 2 cupcake games IF one is the season opener or second game to work kinks out and the other is towards the tail end of the season to give a few banged up players a rest and reward some players who have practiced hard all season without much playing time a chance to play more.
The way our schedule has worked out recently is both “cupcake” games within the first 4-5 games. That is terrible scheduling. While the Bama’s, Georgia and Auburn’s of the league are playing easy opponents before big, season ending finales we are playing a conference game before the FSU game. Totally unfair. Total BS.

 

The two division system was the first in the entire nation. So was the SEC Championship Game... the first conference championship game in the nation.

Here's a blast from the past, before the SEC split into two divisions.It will take you a few minutes to get over the grainy video. It's worth the time.

 

Scheduling cupcakes to get bowl eligible is totally weak and I have no interest in watching it. Tv isn’t paying for that crap either.

 

“The biggest issue at the moment is that the ninth game many in the SEC hope to add would reportedly not earn the league additional money. It is not expected that ESPN, which holds the entirety of the league's media rights starting in 2024, will commit to paying any additional money if the SEC added a ninth conference contest, Sports Illustrated reported Monday.”

Interesting.

Greg Sankey seems to prefer nine SEC games: 'The league at the forefront ... does not stand still'

 

Hmm, almost like throwing all the conference games to one family of networks is a colossal mistake.