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  1. OK buddy. Good talk.
  2. Go for it.
  3. Nah. Let the Houston Chronicle do it.
  4. You can't name 3 of Florida's rivals?
  5. Kentucky has some work to do with the next 3 seasons still sitting at 4 OOC games.
  6. That's a tough one. I grew up with the Tennessee rivalry becoming a thing, so of the three, probably that one. But there are a lot of ancient Gators who still cling to the hope of Auburn becoming a thing again. But it's slipping because it was sacrificed to the scheduling gods now going on 20 years ago. Tebow era Gators just don't have the same feel for Auburn as we've only played 4 times since then and playing them every other year is already a big gain for the rivalry. It's funny that of the three, LSU is the balance of an older rivalry that is still current and has been competitive but it's not the end of the world if that goes to every other year.
  7. From a balance perspective, I agree. Unless Auburn specifically requested it.
  8. Last year was stupid. We screwed around for 60 minutes and still won by 3 TDs. I've never seen a team give up so completely.
  9. It's really hard to create 4 balanced pods AND protect rivalries What made the original SEC divisional format worked was that they put 3 of the "big 6" in each division. It wasn't perfect but from a resource perspective, you would expect competitive balance over time. Tier 1 - Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee Tier 2 - Arkansas, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Kentucky Tier 3 - Miss St, Vandy Adding A&M and Mizzou tilted the balance to the West because A&M has Tier 1 resources while Mizzou was Tier 2. The alternate plan would have been to move Auburn to the East and keep Mizzou to the West, but it would be unbalanced as well. Now with Texas and Oklahoma, you have two more Tier 1 resource programs. West Pod - Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M (3 tier 1, 1 tier 2) River Pod - LSU, Mississippi St., Missouri, Ole Miss (1 tier 1, 2 tier 2, 1 tier 3) Central Pod - Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt (3 tier 1, 1 tier 3) East Pod - Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina (2 tier 1, 2 tier 2)
  10. Once the NCAA did away with the divisional requirement, pods no longer made sense.
  11. Yup. Especially because it wouldn't be done in a vacuum. Florida-Tennessee draws. Oklahoma-A&M would draw. I could kind of understand some old ways of thinking of forcing it to get East and West integrating faster. The 14 team divisional schedule was a nightmare, but that's not an issue anymore and stupid matchups like South Carolina - A&M don't need to be forced. This is the fastest rotation the SEC has had since the '92 expansion: '92 - 5 division, 2 permanent, 1 rotating for the remaining 5 teams (10 year rotation) '03 - 5 division, 1 permanent, 2 rotating for the remaining 6 teams (6 year rotation) '13 - 6 division, 1 permanent, 1 rotating for the remaining 6 teams (12 year rotation) '26 - 3 rivals, 6 rotating for the remaining 12 teams (4 year rotation)
  12. The only way UF-OU makes any sort of sense is if... After UGA, all of Florida's top half rival preferences are taken (Auburn, LSU, Tennessee). Some non-rival permanent games were agreed to so ESPN would pay more.
  13. Miami has one guy that has been spending funny money like crazy for a few years and that could disappear at any moment. The athletic department itself is not healthy.
  14. Miami's athletic department is trash. They field 15.5 sports. Right now, football and hoops are being propped up by a grifter under federal investigation for fraud who has been trying to use them to grift more taxpayer dollars in South Florida and could vanish at any moment. And their "fans" are trash. I saw as many Miami Heat jerseys at the game last year as Hurricanes jerseys.
  15. Miami probably. But yeah, they’d be going for 11 P4 games a year if they didn’t Also the ACC hasn’t figured out how to do a 9 game schedule with 17 teams. Unless they count games against ND in the standings…. We have only played Miami on years where there is an extra bye week baked in to the calendar. We don't have any future games scheduled with them after this year. We are not dropping FSU.
  16. Those paired with not wearing socks paired with a Saturday afternoon in Gainesville... swamp fever.
  17. Happy playing a 9 game schedule. We have a couple of good OOC matchups coming up but half of them have already cancelled on us because of realignment. Getting to play everyone in the conference twice every 4 years is much preferred over maybe playing a cool P4 OOC game. Just annoyed that everyone keeps pairing us up with Oklahoma. We're already playing each other 2 out of ever 4 years, we don't need to "create" marquee brand matchups as a rivalry game.
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