2025 Schedule Bizarre

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NighthawkVol said:
I hope that Florida game is in October again.
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Was curious about this. Assuming September 13 is our SEC opener, it looks like it will be Florida, Georgia, or Arkansas, as they are the only teams that also have open dates on their schedules 9/13 (didn’t check Vandy or Bama, but we know those dates).

Given we play UGA later in the year now, I’d assume our SEC opener will be at home against Arkansas or on the road @Florida.
 
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VolsFan6 said:
Was curious about this. Assuming September 13 is our SEC opener, it looks like it will be Florida, Georgia, or Arkansas, as they are the only teams that also have open dates on their schedules 9/13 (didn’t check Vandy or Bama, but we know those dates).

Given we play UGA later in the year now, I’d assume our SEC opener will be at home against Arkansas or on the road @Florida.
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Hope it's Arkansas, but it'll probably be Florida. Because the SEC loves sending us to the Swamp in September. :rolleyes:
 
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If the SEC could give Mizzou, Arkansas, MissSt and SC to the Big Ten, I think we would all let them go…. And the Big Ten likely would take them.
BernardKingGOAT said:
Why? Because we always played those teams?
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No, a few reasons:

1. I liked the divisional format so we could play our traditional, geographical rivals like Georgia every season.
2. It would be addition (of strength) by subtraction.
 
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Yeah, but three of those are gonna be cakewalks…. Kentucky might be a little challenging… but those other three? Vols by Fiddy
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
I would like to have a rotating Power 4 challenge similar to the ACC/SEC challenge in basketball, except every year you matchup with a new conference. One year it’s the SEC/B1G, the next Big 12 and so on . I think you do something similar to that and then have every P4 school play a 9 game conference schedule, that equals 10/11 Power 4 games for each school.
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That's a great suggestion. It would also strengthen the claims to getting more at-large bids in the playoffs by the conference that wins more of those matchups.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
That's a great suggestion. It would also strengthen the claims to getting more at-large bids in the playoffs by the conference that wins more of those matchups.
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It’s almost like a very scaled down college version of the NFC East Teams playing the AFC West teams and then rotating to the AFC South the next year.
 
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Trying to decide if 2025 season tickets are a good investment? This year has been great and I’ve made money! But big games army home in 25 aren’t as strong as this year? Thoughts?
 
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FlVols said:
Trying to decide if 2025 season tickets are a good investment? This year has been great and I’ve made money! But big games army home in 25 aren’t as strong as this year? Thoughts?
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Do you want tickets in 2026 and beyond?

If you give them up will you have another chance with 15k on waiting list?
 
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jeff1vol said:
The SEC REALLY needs to go to a 9 conference game schedule. It's criminal that they stay at 8. Makes ZERO sense.
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That would put a lot of pressure for other conferences to go to 10 in conference games to approximate the overall difficulty. Rotations in the 16 team league CAN get you 3-4 top 12 or so teams. We have how many top 10 right now? How many Vandy class teams in the BIG?
 
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Dadof2Vols said:
Do you want tickets in 2026 and beyond?

If you give them up will you have another chance with 15k on waiting list?
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You know you’re right. I don’t want to give them up. I’m going this year to Florida and Ky. The other seats sold for a profit of $900 above what I paid so I guess I just need to choke it up and pay the fee again this year
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Why do we schedule like a third rate program? Syracuse? That's a our premiere out of conference matchup? Really? Our athletic department needs to do better. Why can't we schedule teams like Ohio State or Southern Cal for home and home series? Texas and Georgia plays teams like Michigan and Clemson out of conference while we schedule the likes of NC State and Syracuse.

Can we really call ourselves a blue blood when we schedule like this?
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Is Syracuse a home and away deal? Don’t know how to get better level without giving up home games. Having a neutral site game every other year keeps the average up. To do it right we would have to average 6 home games. Ticket prices to cover 2 missing home dates would not go over well.
 
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EZE said:
If the SEC could give Mizzou, Arkansas, MissSt and SC to the Big Ten, I think we would all let them go…. And the Big Ten likely would take them.


No, a few reasons:

1. I liked the divisional format so we could play our traditional, geographical rivals like Georgia every season.
2. It would be addition (of strength) by subtraction.
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Georgia wasn’t a traditional rival (neither was Florida) until division play. Those 2 rivalries were the result of being the 3 best teams in the division, so having to beat the other 2 to win it. But there wasn’t much history there. So division play manufactured those rivalries.

On the other hand, we had a longstanding rivalry with Auburn that had a rich history, but was killed by division play.

I’m fine letting the new non-division format end the annual rivalries with Florida and Georgia, just as the division format created them (and killed Auburn, which frankly, was a better rivalry than either). Our remaining TRUE historic rivalries, which preceded the divisions and continued through the divisions, are Alabama, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky.
 
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We used to play Ole Miss every year before divisions as well. We often played them in Memphis and was important for recruiting I think.
 
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