If the SEC went to three permanent opponents

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livefaith said:
Good point, except that if rivalries are the reason, then certain teams with more rivals are going to get the shaft when it comes to 3 permanents. AL comes to mind. They gonna for UT/AU/LSU on Bama every year? Heck no when GA is prob gonna get UF/VU/UK or the like.
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Georgia would get Florida, Auburn, and likely South Carolina. I’m not sure why you think they’d get Vanderbilt or Kentucky over Auburn (the oldest rivalry in the South) or South Carolina (a rival of Georgia even before SC joined the SEC).
 
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tennesseekilt said:
This!

Permanent games at this point are dumb and there's no need for it. Just set everybody to play everybody the same number of times over an X year period and call it a day. Why anyone would want to set ourselves up with the gauntlet of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama (or whatever) EVERY YEAR is beyond me. Making the playoffs is about wins/losses (mainly). Why make it harder than necessary? The goal is to make the playoffs, period, and see what happens beyond there. I know traditionalists won't like it, but that's the era we live in.

It's also basically the equivalent of wanting to play/schedule Notre Dame, Ohio State, AND Florida State in the same year. I get the desire to want to see marquee games, but at the same time we are hurting our chances to make the playoffs by purposefully setting up gauntlets others don't have to cross.
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Then why are we not in the Sunbelt or OVC conferences? We might go undefeated.
 
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onevol74 said:
Then why are we not in the Sunbelt or OVC conferences? We might go undefeated.
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Because the Sunbelt and OVC don't pay like the SEC.... we'd be playing games at Ole Miss in August to have enough money to pay for a women's softball team to be Title IX compliant.
 
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UK
Vandy
Bama

UF and UGA would be the recent pics but if we’re going for a true historic rivalry that goes way back then we’re stuck with the above.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing either. With how competitive the SEC has gotten a few easy wins each year would be nice.

For that matter a cake walk schedule has proven to be a valid way to get deep into the playoff and the SEC Championship games.
 
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Auburn over Florida, all day every day. If you do not believe it go watch film of what we did to Bo Jackson. Bo is the man but he did not want to play us.
 
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GAVol said:
Permanent games made sense when it was a 10 team league and later when it had divisions. Now, they’re a relic. Just rotate the schedule and play everybody so SOS can have some parity.
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This would truly ruin college football. Mote than the portal, divisions or anything you want to add.

If the TSIO becomes just another game...the pagentry (what is left of it) is gone
 
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GetYouSomeofThat said:
This would truly ruin college football. Mote than the portal, divisions or anything you want to add.

If the TSIO becomes just another game...the pagentry (what is left of it) is gone
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I get it, but they can’t have it both ways and have 16 team super conferences AND a bunch of permanent games unless they cut way back on the OOC games and play 9 or 10 conference games.
 
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FranklinVFL said:
Alabama
Kentucky
Vanderbilt
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Those are our historical rivals…if we’re trying to preserve tradition then these will be our three permanent rivals. We could just pick one historic rivial for each school and then just randomly assign the other two based on trying to balance schedule difficulty based on current performance. That would not guarantee that we would keep Alabama since they would probably want Auburn…but Auburn might want Georgia…and Georgia might want Florida…
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Why are yall so scared of competition? I want Florida, Georgia, and Alabama every year. They can kick Vandy and Kentucky out of the SEC for all I care. Those 3 are our rivals not Vandy or Kentucky.
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Scared??? Got to play the system. The team that loses the least games plays in the championship game. Then you will likely have faced all of those 3 anyway. If you play them all in the regular season, you likely will never be in the championship game. Either way, you end up playing them all in a championship year.
 
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Woodlawn VOL said:
Auburn was a huge rival before division play. Right behind Bama. GBO
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It was similar to the Florida game was in the 90s in that it was always the first big SEC game of the season. It was always the last Saturday in September. Difference was, it was more of a respect rivalry, especially with Majors and Dye. Florida was/is pure hate.

But the other big difference is that Auburn is located in a border state. So we interact more with Auburn fans and vice-versa. Florida is so far away. I really don't know many Gator fans and don't recall knowing any growing up.

In the 80's, Tennessee-Auburn was as big as SEC games got.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
Why are yall so scared of competition? I want Florida, Georgia, and Alabama every year. They can kick Vandy and Kentucky out of the SEC for all I care. Those 3 are our rivals not Vandy or Kentucky.
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You’d be the first person complaining about us missing a playoff at 7-5 and talking about how we were actually better than a bunch of 11-1 teams.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
College football has the greatest regular season of any sport. I don’t want that sacrificed for a couple of games in December and January. We did just fine this season playing Bama, Florida, UGA and Oklahoma. Those are 4 big boy football programs . Traditions can be maintained without losing our playoff contention.
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If you want traditional maintained, then traditionally Alabama, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky have been the only three teams that we have played annually throughout the history of the SEC. It just so happens that tradition and playoff contention happen to line up nicely for us.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
If you want traditional maintained, then traditionally Alabama, Vanderbilt, and Kentucky have been the only three teams that we have played annually throughout the history of the SEC. It just so happens that tradition and playoff contention happen to line up nicely for us.
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Exactly. Not our fault that Vandy and Kentucky suck, at the same time going to Lexington is never easy. We don’t ever go in there and blow them out. It’s usually a very tight game up there.

I think some are also a little too focused on those 3 and not thinking about how difficult the other 6 are going to be year in and year out.

I’m guessing they’d stagger Ole Miss/ Miss St
Texas and OU
aTm and LSU?
Auburn and Arkansas
Georgia and Florida
USCjr and Mizzou

That’s pretty much 7 or 8 (depending if the game is in Lexington and if Miss St is on the schedule ) potential losses . No other conference comes close to that .
 
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It's very obviously Vandy, Kentucky, and Alabama. Many people say Florida, but we didn't play them every year until the 90's....besides, I could use a break from my Florida hate anyways. I have hate watched them for years now, pulling for everybody they play against. If we don't play them every year, then my hate may not burn as white hot.
 
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