Tennessee shouldn't play Georgia every year

#27
#27
McDad said:
In the interest of fairness (or unfair advantage) what needs to be eliminated is neutral site games within the conference. Uga / uf as a traditional neutral site game gives an advantage as opposed to home and away alternating years. If neutral cannot be ended, then all teams should have a neutral against a rival every season.
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I don't see competitive advantage in playing neutral site games. If schools want to play them, fine, and if they don't, fine too.
 
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EasternVol said:
I don't see competitive advantage in playing neutral site games. If schools want to play them, fine, and if they don't, fine too.
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There's not any. Yes, the team doesn't have to play the other team away, but they also never get to play them at home. Florida never has to go to Athens but they also never get to play UGA in the Swamp. It's a tradeoff. It's certainly not an advantage to Georgia because the "neutral site" is like 75 miles from Florida's campus and it's 350+ from Georgia's. Would anyone argue that it was an advantage to Tennessee to play Alabama in Birmingham every year at Legion Field? The WLOCP is even worse than that. I don't know why UGA does it honestly.
 
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TNCNGuy said:
Really?
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Yes really. If the SEC stays at 8 conference games, each team will have one permanent opponent. UGA’s will be Florida and ours will be Vandy. If they go to 9 games, meaning there will be three permanent opponents, Tennessee and Georgia still wouldn’t be paired with each other. If the SEC stays at 8 games, Tennessee and Bama wouldn’t play every year either.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Yes really. If the SEC stays at 8 conference games, each team will have one permanent opponent. UGA’s will be Florida and ours will be Vandy. If they go to 9 games, meaning there will be three permanent opponents, Tennessee and Georgia still wouldn’t be paired with each other. If the SEC stays at 8 games, Tennessee and Bama wouldn’t play every year either.
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Lord after the committee proving this year it is all about W-Ls, I hope Sankey ain’t stupid enough to go to 9 games regardless of what the ESPN bag might be.

Heck if I was Big10, I would offer to chip in to see the SEC go to a 9 game schedule.
 
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Boston Vol said:
Yes really. If the SEC stays at 8 conference games, each team will have one permanent opponent. UGA’s will be Florida and ours will be Vandy. If they go to 9 games, meaning there will be three permanent opponents, Tennessee and Georgia still wouldn’t be paired with each other. If the SEC stays at 8 games, Tennessee and Bama wouldn’t play every year either.
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This has not been decided. The proposals you speak of have been floated but neither has passed. Instead of passing either, the SEC created a one off schedule for 2024 instead, which they decided to repeat for 2025 (and just flip the home and aways). Nothing would preclude the SEC from creating another random schedule for 2026-27. The SEC wants to preserve its core rivalries, but it also doesn't want to go to 9 games unless ABC/ESPN pay for it, so as long as ABC/ESPN don't pay for it, the SEC is liable to keep creating 8 game schedules that preserve core rivalries and don't follow a defined rotation. Basically, that's how the SEC did it prior to 1992 anyway.
 
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unfrozencvmanvol said:
There's not any. Yes, the team doesn't have to play the other team away, but they also never get to play them at home. Florida never has to go to Athens but they also never get to play UGA in the Swamp. It's a tradeoff. It's certainly not an advantage to Georgia because the "neutral site" is like 75 miles from Florida's campus and it's 400+ from Georgia's. Would anyone argue that it was an advantage to Tennessee to play Alabama in Birmingham every year at Legion Field? The WLOCP is even worse than that. I don't know why UGA does it honestly.
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You make some valid points. For many GA fans it isn’t just about the game though, it’s about the whole weekend experience and it’s become tradition. Not only does it bolster the Jacksonville economy, it gives a boost to many areas. One example is St. Simon’s island, but there are many others. There is a ton of money invested in one way or another in this game being played in Jacksonville. I’m not arguing for or against it bc it’s a back and forth I’ve grown tired of. I guess if I had to choose I’d choose to keep it in Jacksonville because I’m afraid in the future we will start seeing these college football traditions become less and less important. I’m all for every team holding on to their traditions.
 
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#36
We will drop Georgia and probably Florida.

Right now Rival #1 is Vandy, #2 is Bama and #3 is Kentucky.

If we don't go to a 9 game SEC conference schedule in 2026, then we lose the Bama and Kentucky rivalries.

8 SEC Game Schedule for 2026:

at Vandy (Rival)
Ole Miss
LSU
Texas
SCAR
Mizzou
Auburn
aTm

9 SEC Game Schedule for 2026:

Vandy (Rival 1)
Bama (Rival 2)
Kentucky (Rival 3)

6 of 7 teams from:
Ole Miss
LSU
Texas
SCAR
Mizzou
Auburn
aTm
 
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EasternVol said:
I don't see competitive advantage in playing neutral site games. If schools want to play them, fine, and if they don't, fine too.
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I tried to grasp your thought but after mulling it for a bit, I don't understand.

There is a competitive advantage for big time programs with passionate fans when they play at home, correct? You agree Neyland is disruptive to our opponents?
 
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FranklinVFL said:
And 5 years ago, it was "Tennessee should not play Alabama every year"....do we just rinse and repeat this with whatever team is good?
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Rivalries can make games closer. The Tennessee-Bama rivarly is probably the longest and most storied rivarly in the nation other than OSU-MI. Georgia-Georgia Tech had no right to go into 8OT but it did. There isn't a real rivarly between Tennessee and Georgia.
 
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jackaro said:
You get the schedule you get and play the schedule you have. Champions do not complain about the schedule, they out recruit and out coach everyone else.
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How do you feel about Nick Saban and the Bama athletic director going on ESPN and saying Bama will schedule easier games moving forward. Not once, but multiple times they said it on TV
 
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I think we should have Notre Dame’s schedule and play a mostly easy schedule throughout the year that we are starters are hardly even sore come playoff. We wouldn’t have to worry about that if we play high school teams.
 
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McDad said:
I tried to grasp your thought but after mulling it for a bit, I don't understand.

There is a competitive advantage for big time programs with passionate fans when they play at home, correct? You agree Neyland is disruptive to our opponents?
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Neyland can be disruptive for our opponents.
 
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TNCNGuy said:
Tennessee is the only team in the country that is expected to play both Alabama and Georgia every year. Makes it very hard to make the playoffs, especially since there is always a good chance we have to play one of them again in the SEC championship if we beat them both in the regular season. Than again in the finals.

Tennessee has more rivalries than any other SEC team. Alabama, Florida, Vandy, UK and Georgia. The Georgia one is the least important in my opinion. It didn't even make the list of 20 most important SEC rivalries
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I say, stop playing Georgia every year. Before 2024, its been years since Alabama played Georgia in the regular season. Without Georgia, we could have been undefeated in both 2022 and 2024 (had we not lost to SC/AR).

Sometimes rivalries go away. The Missouri-Oklahoma rivarly was huge in the 90s, they haven't play since 2011 lol.

With Alabama making noise about a less intense schedule, I say let Tennessee do the same.
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Make vandy our permanent and rotate everyone else. Seems simple enough.
 
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#43
We will not play Georgia every year under the current SEC schedules. However, why not play them every year We will get better in the future and should be able to beat them as much as they beat us.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
We will not play Georgia every year under the current SEC schedules. However, why not play them every year We will get better in the future and should be able to beat them as much as they beat us.
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We've played them for 34 straight years, since 1988. I suspect the SEC will keep it that way. I also think the SEC will try to avoid scheduling Texas and Alabama to play Georgia. Want to keep their records clean to make sure 4+ teams make the playoff.
 
#45
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TNCNGuy said:
Tennessee is the only team in the country that is expected to play both Alabama and Georgia every year. Makes it very hard to make the playoffs, especially since there is always a good chance we have to play one of them again in the SEC championship if we beat them both in the regular season. Than again in the finals.

Tennessee has more rivalries than any other SEC team. Alabama, Florida, Vandy, UK and Georgia. The Georgia one is the least important in my opinion. It didn't even make the list of 20 most important SEC rivalries
www.cbssports.com

SEC football rivalry rankings: Where Texas, Oklahoma feuds stand as Longhorns, Sooners join in 2024 season

Here's how the SEC's historic rivalries stack up with Texas and Oklahoma set to join the fold
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com

I say, stop playing Georgia every year. Before 2024, its been years since Alabama played Georgia in the regular season. Without Georgia, we could have been undefeated in both 2022 and 2024 (had we not lost to SC/AR).

Sometimes rivalries go away. The Missouri-Oklahoma rivarly was huge in the 90s, they haven't play since 2011 lol.

With Alabama making noise about a less intense schedule, I say let Tennessee do the same.
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Start beating them and that thought process changes
 
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TNCNGuy said:
How do you feel about Nick Saban and the Bama athletic director going on ESPN and saying Bama will schedule easier games moving forward. Not once, but multiple times they said it on TV
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As long as the playoff committee is not rewarding scheduling tough out of conference opponents then I can see why schools don't do that. In conference games, however, are scheduled by the conference not the school.
 
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