SEC possibly going to a single division

[Tnphil]

Good...Two divisions never made sense to me. Put the 2 best teams in the SECCG. PAC 12 did away with the divisions and went to putting the best 2 in their championship game.

 

[Vol*n*teer]

No conference championship hurts playoff chances in my opinion.

With 12 teams that's a moot point imo. 4 pods. Each pod winner gets a playoff bid.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

No conference championship hurts playoff chances in my opinion.

Notre Dame has already proven conference championships don’t matter

 

[SoddyAllVol]

No conference championship hurts playoff chances in my opinion.

There will be a championship game no doubt

 

[vavolfan6]

Id rather we knock out two worthless teams like Mizzou and Vandy before doing this. It works like this in basketball because there is an SEC tournament..

 

[Jeff Clark]

Tennessee will survive and thrive in the new SEC

 

[dduncan4163]

I'm okay with it as long as we get Bama and Florida as permanent rivals

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

No conference championship hurts playoff chances in my opinion.

Didn't hurt Bama one year that they won it all. Of course that was Bama...

 

[Jeff Clark]

I'm okay with it as long as we get Bama and Florida as permanent rivals

I would like to move Georgia to once every four years

 

[dduncan4163]

 

[joevol33]

This is the dumbest thing ever! Tennessee should leave and join the ACC, no call for this bull crap! Whole coaching staff, Sankey, and finebaum should all be fired!


* I just hadn't seen anyone pitch a fit yet, and wanted to be the first

 

[johnsonbrewer]

It's Twitter! Is this legit??

 

[rocketskates]

Oh don’t worry…we will still play Georgia, Florida, and Bama every year. We will also play LSU and Ole Miss yearly. Meanwhile the other teams will play scrubs and b*tch about how Tennessee “never plays anybody”.

 

[Jeff Clark]

Oh don’t worry…we will still play Georgia, Florida, and Bama every year. We will also play LSU and Ole Miss yearly. Meanwhile the other teams will play scrubs and b*tch about how Tennessee “never plays anybody”.

This is like the old Southern Conference

Southern Conference - Wikipedia

 

[MAD]

This smells like Saban is behind the change and trying to get Bama out of the annual “Third Saturday of October”.

 

[KINGSVOL]

How about this;
1 division
9 conference games
2 non conference games
Top 6 team playoff for SEC Championship, top 2 Ranked in CFP get the bye. That's 3 SECG games! Top 4 are virtually guaranteed into the playoffs due to rankings!!!
NOTE: seeds 3-6 would be set based on wins losses, ranking AND if they played already, if they have it moves to the other team not played. Even stronger arguement to get the top 4 into the CFP!!!!

 

[Jeff Clark]

This smells like Saban is behind the change and trying to get Bama out of the annual “Third Saturday of October”.

I would love to have Georgia no longer a regular opponent for Tennessee.

 

[Pride85]

No conference championship hurts playoff chances in my opinion.

They would probably just have the top two teams play each other for the championship.

 

[cobbwebb0710]

No conference championship hurts playoff chances in my opinion.

They’ll still have an SEC championship game, there’s too much money to be made.
This will be like the old days, just more teams.

 

[volfeeva]

the current conference play off system seems to guarantee to knock one SEC team out of the title play offs. The SEC teams beat each other up during the regular season so it's hard enough to stay undefeated by the end of the schedule, while many teams like Clemson/Norte Dame seem to get in the play offs without playing anyone.

 

[jim pique]

I think that I read in the article about Sankey saying to do away with divisions.He said that ACC,Pac12 and others have done away with divisions.Wrong!ACC has Coastal and Atlantic,Pac twelve has north and south,Big 10(cannot count)has east and west division.

 

[Sea Ray]

So, I expect our 3 annual Rival games to be 3rd Saturday Bama, in-state Vandy and most played rivalry Kentucky. Everyone else will be on the rotation, 6 more conference games for nine total.

Bama should be: Tennessee, Auburn and LSU
Auburn: Georgia, Bama, and Florida
Georgia: Auburn, SCAR, Florida
Florida: Georgia, Auburn, (LSU or SCAR)

We ought not have to play Alabama, Georgia and Florida every year

 

[scottchatt]

I think that I read in the article about Sankey saying to do away with divisions.He said that ACC,Pac12 and others have done away with divisions.Wrong!ACC has Coastal and Atlantic,Pac twelve has north and south,Big 10(cannot count)has east and west division.

pac12 got room d of North / south. Now just two best teams. Same as big12. ACC has been discussing the same thing.

 

[iWishItWasTheWeekend]

The Big Ten should follow this as well. Having Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and Michigan State in one division is stupid in a conference that doesn’t have much depth. The Big Ten West (Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern, Nebraska, and Wisconsin) might be the worst division in Power 5 conference football.

 

[He_Made_It]

I still say go back to 11 game regular seasons with no conference championship games. Run a 16 team playoffs with 15-20-ish bowl games for everyone else and be done with it.

If you finish #17 you didn’t get it right.