Press release straight from the league office last June. This was only supposed to be a one year-one off schedule, not a 2 year extension. Sec Sports Several things are still holding it up: Some schools want 9 conference games, others only want 8. They can’t agree on the number of permanent games, 1 or 3. Some schools want more time to dispose of or shuffle scheduled OOC games. Some don’t want to play even one semi-difficult OOC game and a 9 game SEC schedule. Soft & weak, imho. "Creating a one-year schedule will provide a longer on-ramp to manage football scheduling around existing non-conference commitments of our members," Sankey said.
All those reasons seem perfectly valid to me....and going ahead and making the 24 and 25 seasons a "home and home series" for everyone makes sense while they figure things out. This is not a simple process, impossible to make everyone happy and a lot of moving parts.
I like something similar, I'm in favor of 9 conference games and 1-2 non conference. Everyone go back to 10-11 games reg season games. There's potential right now for a team to play 17 games in a season. The playoff expansion, should decrease the number of regular season games in my opinion.
They don't get to vote on every schedule, but you can bet there is a lot of lobbying. They could vote to get a new commish...so there's that.
Normally I would totally agree that the regular season should be pared back to 10-11 games and the faux conf championship games should be abolished, but we are talking about $$ and if a reduction of that would occur college administrators would be completely against any such proposal. This is a pro league now anyway, so I couldn't give a damn if they played 20-25 games a season now.
Yeah I know they will never go backwards with the number. We know the playoffs will just continue to expand. $$$$
The thing is the expanding the number of games and schedule and forcing athletes to constantly fly all over the country is going to do nothing but hasten the attempts of college athletes to organize. Its the only way they will have some control over how Colleges and Universities use their talent.
They get a say in whether we go with an 8 or 9 game schedule, and they get a say in how we rotate opponents.
It only affects a couple teams so eliminating a game for every team in the nation makes no sense to me. I’m sure the kids that play in the national championship don’t mind the extra week.
Meanwhile, we get the toughest s hedule in the nation not one year but two. Big surprise. At least we have good games to watch. I don’t like blowouts anyway unless it’s a rival.
It's hard to believe this wasn't figured out in advance of inviting the newest teams into the conference. Go GATORS! ,WESGATORS
Don’t know anything about that. Just saying that the 2025 schedule has been presumed for a while now, so no surprise.
So one should have figured that when they made the 2024 schedule that they would follow that with a reciprocal 2025 schedule... I'll give them that. But we need a real solid scheduling rotation, or list of permanent teams that we can all count on. We can't go on with this potluck BS, made as you go, scheduling buffet of clown dung. We need to go back to two divisions... and we need permanent rival teams that we can count on, to play, every single year. We need order... discipline in scheduling, and we need a solid foundation for future game planning. I also hope we do NOT fall for the FSU/Clemson BS... These teams are proving that even a solid contract will NOT stop their desire to cheat. Imagine putting either of those teams on probation for cheating. They will sue and they will get their cheating azz way... We cannot allow that mindset to infect the SEC and poison what we have going. Screw FSU and Clemson... and fix our SEC football schedule immediately.
I was against adding A&M & Mizzou. Was downright pissed about adding Texas and Oklahoma. Even with nine games they would still dick around with the schedule like this. It really sucks.
They’re not idiots. They are doing what they’re paid to do. College football is becoming more and more like pro wrestling every year. It’s not a competition, it’s a show.
Scheduling should be easy. Schedule half the SEC teams one year and the other half the next. Maybe one exception for a single rival team (like Georgia, let LSU go away). Even allowing that, why should we play Texas two years in a row with sixteen conference teams and eight conference games on the schedule? OK, maybe the schedulers are not idiots, but, their scheduling is... idiotic.
