SEC Alignment

How would you like the SEC?

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I like the conference championships so i'm all for the split divisions. but i wasn't old enough to remember the sec before it was turned into a super conference.(92)
 
#2
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I like the current format becuase of the matchups it created. If I remember, we used to play Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vandy annually and rotate the other 4 every 2 years. I miss playing Auburn every year, but it's hard to believe that there was a time when we only played Georgia and Florida twice every 6 years.

...but the cool thing was that no matter how bad the season was going - we always finished in November with the cupcake guantlet of Ole Sis, Kentucky and Vandy. It was sort of nice for 3 of our 6 conference games to be gimmes. :good:
 
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well we still have 2 gimmies in Nov. and I think having to prepare for Florida every yr (when SS was there) and Ga now that Richt is there has elevated our program
 
#4
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Originally posted by GAVol@Feb 23, 2005 10:51 PM
I like the current format becuase of the matchups it created. If I remember, we used to play Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vandy annually and rotate the other 4 every 2 years. I miss playing Auburn every year, but it's hard to believe that there was a time when we only played Georgia and Florida twice every 6 years.

...but the cool thing was that no matter how bad the season was going - we always finished in November with the cupcake guantlet of Ole Sis, Kentucky and Vandy. It was sort of nice for 3 of our 6 conference games to be gimmes. :good:
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If you go here I talked about this just the other day in the Biggest Rival thread.

http://www.volnation.com/forum/index.php?s...indpost&p=56972

I'll paste my comments in.

Alabama wins hands down, reasons: When the league expanded and split into divisions in 92, there were a lot of old rivalries that had to take a back seat due to the new alignments. We used to play a 5/2 round robin. In other words, we had 5 teams we played every year and 2 that would rotate on and off from among the other 4. We played annually: Vandy, Kentucky, Bama, Mississippi, Auburn, and the other 4 teams bounced on and off the schedule. Prior to 1988 the SEC only played 6 conference games and the round robin was a 5/1, whereas; 5 teams were on the schedule annually and the other 4 bounced on and off to make up the 6th game.

Prior to the SEC's division and expansion, Georgia Tech rivaled Alabama as our greatest rival. Tech was a member of the SEC until 1964 when they went Independent, then later joined the ACC. Even after Tech left the conference, we were such bitter rivals that neither school could bear the thought of not playing, so they remained on our schedule for another 23 years. From 1954 until 1986 we played them every year.

When the conference went to division play, it meant you played every team in your division and 3 which were not in the division, but with the only logical way to split the conference was by geography, it meant some of each team's annual rivals had to go. This was a real dilemma for the conference. For instance; one of Georgia's greatest rivals was Auburn, so the conference came up with a format that allowed 5 divisional games, 1 non-divisional but annual game (We got to keep Alabama) and then the other 5 teams bounce on and off to make up the other 2 conference games each year.

I can assure you that if Alabama/Tennessee had not been salvaged, there would never have been an expansion with divisional play.

So my vote goes to Alabama.

Now, you can argue this decade, the last 20 years, the last 5 years, but to all of the old-time Vol fans it is and will always be Alabama.
 
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I like the current format, but I have to tell you; I really miss the annual meetings with Auburn and the huge rivalry game we had with GA. Tech.
 
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i like what we have. but we should trade vandy and kentucky for another competiitve team or two. louisville would be a great game every year..

i would love to see our d :censored: crush their qbs..

our do is known for knocking qbs out of games.
 
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Originally posted by OldVol@Feb 24, 2005 11:53 AM
I like the current format, but I have to tell you; I really miss the annual meetings with Auburn and the huge rivalry game we had with GA. Tech.
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Didn't Fuad Reveiz get us a tie with GaTech with a 60 yard field goal?
 
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Originally posted by volinbham+Feb 24, 2005 8:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (volinbham @ Feb 24, 2005 8:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-OldVol@Feb 24, 2005 11:53 AM
I like the current format, but I have to tell you; I really miss the annual meetings with Auburn and the huge rivalry game we had with GA. Tech.
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Didn&#39;t Fuad Reveiz get us a tie with GaTech with a 60 yard field goal? [/quote]
I think you&#39;re mixing up two games - Fuad did hit a 60 yard FG, but it was in a loss to Ga Tech in 1982 (I remember because it was the first game I ever saw in person.)

CARLOS Reveiz hit a game tying FG in a 6-6 tie against Ga Tech in 1985.
 
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#9
i want the conference to stay the way it is because i live i arkansas and beating them in sports gives me great please
 

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I say get rid of Vandy and Kentucky....and bring in Marshall and Tulane....at least those programs have had some success going to bowls LOLOL
 
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....Its the 2006 Spic-and-Span Toliet Bowl....brought to you by Spic-and-Span....got touch stans in the bowl.....get em out with new Bleach powered Spic-and-Span.......and by Ma and Pa&#39;s Diner......where the food is definately better than the football..... :dlol: :eek:lol: :dlol: :eek:lol: :dlol:
 
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Originally posted by g8terh8ter_eric@Feb 24, 2005 11:01 PM
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....Its the 2006 Spic-and-Span Toliet Bowl....brought to you by Spic-and-Span....got touch stans in the bowl.....get em out with new Bleach powered Spic-and-Span.......and by Ma and Pa&#39;s Diner......where the food is definately better than the football..... :dlol: :eek:lol: :dlol: :eek:lol: :dlol:
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:good: :rocks:

spic and span. :dlol:

 
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