The sec sets the schedule up specifically to maximize ranked teams at the end of the season.
Playing 8 conference games instead of 9 makes the whole league look marginally better in comparison to a conference that has 8 more losses.
And they replace those conference games with absolute dog shit in November. Sec games in November:
Maine
UMass
NM St
Louisiana-Monroe
Murray St
Mercer
UMass again
UTEP
Wofford
Loisiana Tech
That some of you have bought into the idea that the sec cannibalises itself with its brutal conference schedule is laughable bullshit.
Ole Miss lost to LSU and Kentucky, and they played a ooc schedule of Furman, middle Tennessee, wake, and Georgia southern.
Ole Miss, A&M, SC, LSU, Missouri, could all have easily dropped an extra conference game and made the league as a whole look worse.
Hell the winner (and loser) of this uga-tenn game get a pillow soft game next week. Tenn gets utep and uga plays umass. Instead of getting another conference game to follow up this game.
There’s no clear cut top tier in the sec this year so for some of you the takeaway is “oh that must mean that everyone is awesome”.
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