2024 Schedule- When will we know?

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Vol_guy said:
Conference is not going to 9 games. The 1-7-7 model is what the Conference will go with.

The Goal is to get more teams into the playoff and keep a decent ooc schedule.

You go to a 3-6-6 you almost guarantee that Georgia will drop tech. Carolina will drop Clemson. Florida will drop Florida State.
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Money talks, bullshite walks. They are trying to get ESPN to up the ante on the TV deal to go to 9 games and that is what will happen after they play chicken for awhile between now and spring.
 
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ptcarter said:
I was once a tech writer. I was in a class of "minimalism" given to produce efficiency in writing, along with my co-worker, (let's just call him Tony). That class, plus a book I gave him called "junk English" and opened Pandora's box with Tony. When he spots an inefficiency, he texts me. For example, the news man says "it happened at 4:00 am in the morning", or it was an "unexpected surprise". And in football it kills him when someone says "The kick was partially blocked" (it either was or wasn't). Another one - "The play is under further review", means they are reviewing it for a second time. Also, when the ref says "This is their 2nd time out of the half" - you can't carry them over so why bother with the half thing. There are so many more. Illegal block in the back. Is there a legal block in the back? Threw a perfect strike, it was totally destroyed, had a noticeable limp, (I'm just going back through my text messages from him now), They had a pick 6 on defense.

The funniest one was that we were watching the same game and the announcer said "The quarterback made a decisive decision to run the ball". We texted each other simultaneously!

Anyway, he's a Bama fan and we were talking about this topic at lunch the other day. I told him it would most likely end up having 1 division. OMG - he laughed. No such thing. Here's what the definition of division is: the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated . Not railing on anyone in particular here, but Tony had a lot of fun with me calling it a single division.
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There actually are legal blocks in the back. If the players are inside the tackle box it is legal.
 
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Where I was going with that was trying to give equal footing to every school with one OOC rival.
I had played around with Tenn-Va Tech, Vandy-Memphis, Texas-Baylor, TAMU-Houston, etc.
It gets tricky though with Alabama, Auburn, and Ole Miss.
As I recall, North Carolina and Wake Forest played as an OOC this year.
So maybe do 1/7/7 -with some schools scheduling an extra SEC game as OOC.
 
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Golfprovol said:
If this is accurate getting to the playoff consistently is gonna be damn near impossible...the schedule will be so hard it wont be fair. The Big 10 will have three times as many SEC teams in the playoff....

Even years: Bama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, A & M
Odd years: Bama, Auburn, Florida, LSU, Arkansas, ole miss

Bama is almost as bad.
Even: UT, UF, Okla, A&M
Odd: UT, LSU, Texas, Georgia
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Can’t really get worse than Georgia and Bama every year for us.
 
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With a 12 team format I could see both SEC title game participants make it into the playoff. And possibly the next best team record wise, for a total of 3 teams in.

Gonna be damned interesting when 2024 hits. I want to see some of the ridiculous schedules they put out too. Especially a 9 game slate. Who gets UGA Bama Texas Tennessee and LSU in back to back weeks. 🤣 Good ****in luck...
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
With a 12 team format I could see both SEC title game participants make it into the playoff. And possibly the next best team record wise, for a total of 3 teams in.

Gonna be damned interesting when 2024 hits. I want to see some of the ridiculous schedules they put out too. Especially a 9 game slate. Who gets UGA Bama Texas Tennessee and LSU in back to back weeks. 🤣 Good ****in luck...
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Auburn prolly… just playin the odds
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
So you don't see the conference championship as important, in its own right, I take it.

I do. In fact, I think it has more value and cache than getting into the playoffs. Note I said getting in, not winning.

Chronologically, the conference CG will come first, then they'll announce the 12 playoff teams, then one will be crowned national champ.

But in order of significance, I think you flip the first two.

Twelve teams can get into the playoffs...and that may include three, four, even five SEC teams. But only one SEC team can win the conference.

As the playoffs expand, more and more fan bases are going to end the year with the disappointment of a loss. Twelve-team playoff? That's one champ, and 11 also-rans. Some might say 11 losers, though I think that's a bit harsh.

You don't (and shouldn't) get a trophy for coming in second in the playoffs. Nor second in the SEC.

So yeah, I think winning the conference has value in its own right.

That's the purpose.

Plus money, lol.

Go Vols!
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If there's trophy to play for, I want to win the damn thing.
 
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