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While we are all spit balling here...

Alabama: Auburn, LSU, Tennessee
Arkansas: Missouri, Ole Miss, Texas
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, Florida
Florida: Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn
Georgia: Florida, Auburn, South Carolina
Kentucky: South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Missouri
LSU: Texas A&M, Alabama, MSU 
Ole Miss: MSU, Arkansas, Vanderbilt
MSU: Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU
Missouri: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky
Oklahoma: Texas, Missouri, Texas A&M
South Carolina: Kentucky, MSU, Georgia
Tennessee: Vanderbilt, Florida, Alabama
Texas: Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Arkansas
Texas A&M: LSU, Texas, Oklahoma
Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Kentucky, Ole Miss

I see most lists splitting Bama and LSU up, but that game needs to be played annually. So much has been riding on that game for about a decade.

I'm not super happy with they way that MSU, Ole Miss, Arkansas, LSU and Vandy are divvied up in this scenario, but something has got to give. 

I don't really think that any of this is going to significantly impact strength of schedule. If you are getting one of the lower tier teams in your permanent match up, all it means is that you're going to rotate through the big dogs more frequently in the rest of the schedule.  You may have it easier one year, but the next year it is going to come back around to bite you in the ass. There really isn't anywhere to hide in this conference with a 9 game schedule.

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I married into an LSU family, and all of my in laws want their permanents to be “original 10” schools. They view Arkansas and A&M as manufactured rivalries, and would prefer Ole Miss, Florida, and either Bama or Auburn. I suspect they will be disappointed. 

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  On 2/14/2023 at 9:24 PM, babysdaddy said:

It should be.  We played there last time.  It's only fair and it will make those fucking gooners lose their minds.

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What you don't understand is SEC! SEC! SEC! and because A&M is a long-standing SEC blueblood, having the first game at Kyle Field is the only respectful solution.

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  On 2/15/2023 at 5:52 PM, Drew said:
That's what's so weird to me...they're talking about Texas getting those 3, but the others aren't getting the same? Guess they really don't want to be labeled as a "pod"

OU has played Arkansas four times in the past 100 years. Given that we’ve played Auburn four times in half of that time frame, do you also think Auburn is an obvious permanent opponent for Texas?

OU was in the Big 12/Big 8/preceding conferences with Mizzou forever. Texas and Mizzou are the two no brainers for them.

That’s just one example of these things not necessarily being congruent from school to school.
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I’ll play the role of contrarian here as I believe the final grouping of 3 for Texas will not be the obvious 3 of OU, Ag, and Pig. Cant imagine that they’ll make us completely happy with our perm 3 rivals (assuming UT communicated this as their desire) while screwing longer term SEC members by not honoring all of theIr wishes. I expect a lot of horse trading to take place before the schedule is finalized and that no one will be completely satisfied. 

My guess is Pig isn’t on the final list as the embers of that rivalry are barely flickering in the conscious of most college football fans. Since we all believe that TV will have some say, they’ll want UT to play OU and Ag every year as it is likely the expected ratings for those 2 games would exceed UT/Pig and thus Arkansas would be odd man(pig) out. Not sure who would be the replacement in that scenario….it is possible it is someone we wouldn’t expect. 
 

Also, the 3 permanent rivals aren’t set for all time…it could be that in the next TV contract ESPN (or whomever) armed with ratings data might cajole the SEC into some changes to maximize viewership. If Pig isn’t one of the original 3 but the ratings for the matchups that happen exceed expectations and are better than the ratings for the games against the currently unnamed 3rd permanent opponent, a swap would likely happen. 

All logic dictates that OU, Ag, and Pig are the games…but logic hasn’t often applied in these situations. 

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  On 2/16/2023 at 2:11 AM, PencilPusher said:

I’ll play the role of contrarian here as I believe the final grouping of 3 for Texas will not be the obvious 3 of OU, Ag, and Pig. Cant imagine that they’ll make us completely happy with our perm 3 rivals (assuming UT communicated this as their desire) while screwing longer term SEC members by not honoring all of theIr wishes. I expect a lot of horse trading to take place before the schedule is finalized and that no one will be completely satisfied. 

My guess is Pig isn’t on the final list as the embers of that rivalry are barely flickering in the conscious of most college football fans. Since we all believe that TV will have some say, they’ll want UT to play OU and Ag every year as it is likely the expected ratings for those 2 games would exceed UT/Pig and thus Arkansas would be odd man(pig) out. Not sure who would be the replacement in that scenario….it is possible it is someone we wouldn’t expect. 
 

Also, the 3 permanent rivals aren’t set for all time…it could be that in the next TV contract ESPN (or whomever) armed with ratings data might cajole the SEC into some changes to maximize viewership. If Pig isn’t one of the original 3 but the ratings for the matchups that happen exceed expectations and are better than the ratings for the games against the currently unnamed 3rd permanent opponent, a swap would likely happen. 

All logic dictates that OU, Ag, and Pig are the games…but logic hasn’t often applied in these situations. 

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Except, there aren't any traditional SEC teams clamoring for the pigs or ags as their perma-rivals.  Texas is likely the only one asking specifically for either of those two schools.  

It's not that the SEC is going to go out of its way to make Texas happy, it's just that they might as well, since nobody else gives a shit about those two schools.

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  On 2/14/2023 at 6:51 PM, utee94 said:

Everyone still has to play 6 of the other teams 2 years, and the other 6 the following 2 years.  I don't think anyone's going to have both Alabama and Georgia on the schedule as their perma-rivals and no other teams in the SEC are consistently playing at that kind of level, so overall I think it's all going to average out.

 

 

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Auburn will , thats why their 3rd has to be vandy. 

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  On 2/16/2023 at 2:15 AM, utee94 said:

Except, there aren't any traditional SEC teams clamoring for the pigs or ags as their perma-rivals.  Texas is likely the only one asking specifically for either of those two schools.  

It's not that the SEC is going to go out of its way to make Texas happy, it's just that they might as well, since nobody else gives a shit about those two schools.

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Texas is the easiest 3: Ou, Aggie, Arky. Its a lot of teams in the East that will be harder to equally divide. Ou has to get someone hard from the East bc its 2 guaranteed will be Texas and Mizzou, cant give them Arkansas as a 3rd. 

  On 2/16/2023 at 2:41 AM, TheContractor said:

Texas is the easiest 3: Ou, Aggie, Arky. Its a lot of teams in the East that will be harder to equally divide. Ou has to get someone hard from the East bc its 2 guaranteed will be Texas and Mizzou, cant give them Arkansas as a 3rd. 

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Florida make the most sense. 

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  On 2/15/2023 at 9:17 PM, Mitch Cumsteen said:

While we are all spit balling here...

Alabama: Auburn, LSU, Tennessee
Arkansas: Missouri, Ole Miss, Texas
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, Florida
Florida: Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn
Georgia: Florida, Auburn, South Carolina
Kentucky: South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Missouri
LSU: Texas A&M, Alabama, MSU 
Ole Miss: MSU, Arkansas, Vanderbilt
MSU: Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU
Missouri: Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky
Oklahoma: Texas, Missouri, Texas A&M
South Carolina: Kentucky, MSU, Georgia
Tennessee: Vanderbilt, Florida, Alabama
Texas: Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Arkansas
Texas A&M: LSU, Texas, Oklahoma
Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Kentucky, Ole Miss

I see most lists splitting Bama and LSU up, but that game needs to be played annually. So much has been riding on that game for about a decade.

I'm not super happy with they way that MSU, Ole Miss, Arkansas, LSU and Vandy are divvied up in this scenario, but something has got to give. 

I don't really think that any of this is going to significantly impact strength of schedule. If you are getting one of the lower tier teams in your permanent match up, all it means is that you're going to rotate through the big dogs more frequently in the rest of the schedule.  You may have it easier one year, but the next year it is going to come back around to bite you in the ass. There really isn't anywhere to hide in this conference with a 9 game schedule.

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Not bad but you must hate Auburn and Florida bc they dont like you, haha. Tennessee just cant get Vandy, its just too easy a guaranteed win. 

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SEC36.thumb.png.1aebb48018cf45f9e1629ae710c78012.pngIf Auburn is stuck with Bama/UGA, i gave them Vandy bc anything else is not really fair. Florida has a gripe, rightfully. But giving them LSU isnt any different and Ou has to get a stronger 3rd opponent other than Tx/Mizzou. No long term, true rivalry is left out. Closest is UGA/Tenn , Tenn/Vandy(but thats Tenn cant come out that easy) and a relatively new one in Lsu/UF. You can say Arky/LSU and Arky/Aggie but thats a stretch. 

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I'm going to imagine each school was given their choice of a rivalry that is sacrosanct to them. For us, it's OU. For Arkansas, it's us. For Tennessee, it's Alabama. I could see aggy saying they have to play LSU. Then you the regional/in-state rivalries that have to continue. Texas/aggy. Alabama/Auburn, Ole Miss/Miss St. Then you have the final one that's more fungible. If you fit as a rival to another school or it's a long standing tradition, it goes there. Not every school is going to be someone's chosen rival so that's where it gets fishy. I doubt anyone's going to say they want to play South Carolina as a rival. That's where you get the automatic game against Georgia. 

So in my best guess, you get those 3 tiers added into the pot. Tier 1-requested rival. Tier 2-in-state/border rivalry. Tier 3-long standing/you are that school's "rival". Texas would get OU (tier 1), aggy (tier 2), Arkansas (tier 3). Tier 1 makes sense to me because some games are just no-brainer rivalry games like Auburn/Alabama so those two don't have to waste a tier 1 pick on either. There's the obvious problem of not everyone can be Alabama's rival so the criteria would slide to how old the rivalry is.

My best guess on the tier 1 for each school:

aggy-LSU

Alabama-Tennessee

Arkansas-Texas

Auburn-Georgia

Florida- Georgia

Georgia-Auburn

Kentucky-Tennessee

LSU-Florida or Alabama

Mississippi State-Alabama or LSU

Missouri-OU

Ole Miss- Alabama or LSU

South Carolina-Georgia

Tennessee-Alabama

OU-Texas

Texas-OU

Vanderbilt-Kentucky

 

This is all a best guess on my part. The problem is 4 schools would say Alabama is their main rival (LSU, Miss State, Ole Miss, Tennessee). Auburn is obvious so that takes away 1 choice. Tennessee gets in, so that leaves one more of LSU/Miss State/Ole Miss. For balance and tradition, Miss State gets the nod as they've played each other the longest. So Alabama gets Tennessee, Auburn, Miss State for their 3. I think the stumbling block will be balancing out each group so no one is getting 3 tough as hell opponents each year. 

Best guess for all 3:

aggy-LSU, Texas, OU

Alabama-Tenn, Auburn, Miss St

Arkansas-Texas, Mizzou, Ole Miss

Auburn-Georgia, Alabama, Miss St

Florida-Georgia, LSU, South Carolina

Georgia-Florida, Auburn, South Carolina

Kentucky-Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina

LSU- Florida, aggy, Ole Miss

Miss State-Alabama, Ole Miss, Auburn

Mizzou-OU, Arkansas, Vanderbilt

Ole Miss-LSU, Miss State, Arkansas

OU-Texas, Mizzou, aggy

South Carolina-Georgia, Kentucky, Florida

Tennessee-Alabama, Kentucky, Vanderbilt

Texas-OU, aggy, Arkansas

Vanderbilt-Kentucky, Tennessee, Mizzou

 

 

 

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I’m not so sure we’ll see OU/aggy as rivals. They don’t have a super-rich history together, and aggy is going to cry and whine not to have to play OU. With enough time they’ll come up with 77 different excuses.

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Yeah, there's always going to be weird outliers. OU only has 2 real/traditional rivals. So the 3rd is going to be a reach. I'd imagine it's between Arkansas and aggy for proximity. 

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  On 2/15/2023 at 10:05 PM, jimmyjazz said:

What you don't understand is SEC! SEC! SEC! and because A&M is a long-standing SEC blueblood, having the first game at Kyle Field is the only respectful solution.

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Just a few months ago they spontaneously decided they had been promised the first game would be at pyle because the league had to offer that to them so they would go quietly with the unanimous vote which wouldn't have been necessary if they hadn't pitched a fit and shit on the floor in public at the AD meeting where they leaked the move.

The real comedy acid test comes when they deal with the cognitive dissonance that comes with the first game at Pyle:

- play both corndog & the sipsaway in the same year and both home in the same year, which further erodes their 1-in-25-year chance of escaping the league with only 1 loss in the new setup where they can't duck all the powers for years at a time

- play @redstick twice in a row to avoid the home/home away/away situation above

which is it aggy?  which one demonstrates your Authoritai?

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  On 2/16/2023 at 3:40 AM, mdmost said:

I think the stumbling block will be balancing out each group so no one is getting 3 tough as hell opponents each year. 

Best guess for all 3:

aggy-LSU, Texas, OU

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lulz 8 teams in the new SEC have BCS/CFP titles and you have aggy as the only school that has 3 of the 8 as rivals. All others are playing 1 or 2 max.

I’m not aggy fan, but I can’t see the SEC shitting on them that badly (though I’d laugh if they did).

Other than that, this is a really solid plan that I think would satisfy just about every team in the SEC outside of College Station.

Only a few active rivalry misses (some of which for competitive balance and simple mathematics have to occur):

aggy/Arkansas (this was always forced anyways, everyone knew Arkansas just wanted a Texas annually again)

Arkansas/LSU (again this was forced to since neither had a rival for rivalry weekend, conference could make sure they have LSU and aggy opposite each other on their schedule so they for sure play 1 of these two each year)

Ole Miss/Vandy (this one is real but both keep their #1 and #2 rivals so it’s expendable)

Alabama/LSU (massive loss by not having this game but more so on LSU’s side than Bama, this one has to go to keep a competitive balance, Bama can’t be rivals with Auburn/Tenn and LSU and have a 4th major game from UF/UGA/Texas/OU that would just be too much)

UF/Tenn (doesn’t have as many matchups as it made out to be, Tenn is in high demand as Vandy&Kentucky’s #1 rival, and UF has UGA&LSU so dropping Tenn makes sense, especially since you know they would have dropped them in order to restore their annual game with Auburn if they could. Tenn could have UF/UGA opposite each other on the schedule so they play at least one every year and Florida could mirror the same setup with Tenn/Auburn too)

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Ha, I don't think I intentionally did that with aggy. But I think aggy is going to do this to themselves by insisting they get LSU every year to maintain their "rivalry" that they've been trying to make a thing since getting into the SEC. It makes some sense given their proximity. In the long run, it's a better "rivalry" than Arkansas/aggy will be. We're a given for aggy. So if the third is Arkansas and not OU, that means OU is left with a weird "rival" like Ole Miss or Arkansas loses a team they've played for 30+ years like Ole Miss or Miss State. My idea was more about preserving tradition since that always seems to get lost when expansion happens. I guess though if we're going that route, Arkansas and aggy have the longer tradition than OU and aggy. Again though, I'm having a tough time thinking of who OU gets if you remove aggy. 

I think the rotation of 6 will be such that a Bama/LSU series and a UF/Tenn series is more of a highlight when they happen, like when we played Nebraska back in the early days of the Big 12.

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  On 2/16/2023 at 6:36 AM, TKthunder2 said:

Alabama/LSU (massive loss by not having this game but more so on LSU’s side than Bama, this one has to go to keep a competitive balance, Bama can’t be rivals with Auburn/Tenn and LSU and have a 4th major game from UF/UGA/Texas/OU that would just be too much)

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With regard to Bama/LSU going away and competitive balance… I don’t think you can plan it out that way. Tennessee has been shit for forever until this year and Auburn is on their third coach in four years. You just can’t tell who is going to be good year to year. And if you check Alabama’s schedule even this year, they have auburn, tn, lsu and… Texas.  I think you’re more likely to see less ambitious ooc scheduling going forward, especially when the sec bullshit late season cream puff disappears. 

Also, as much as we look at history and rivalries and tradition, we shouldn’t overlook the real driver in all of this and that’s the tv networks. I imagine espn is pushing the agenda to get as many great matchups as possible each year. Bama v Mississippi State just isn’t going to move the needle like Bama v LSU. Why wouldn’t they want that game every year instead? And this applies conference wide. Auburn should play Georgia, Bama and Florida. Florida should play auburn, Georgia and Tennessee. A&M should should play lsu, ou and Texas. Who isn’t going to tune in to those games every week? 

As long as it’s not impacting playoff berths, the conference should be good with this too. There’s going to be a pretty good argument that three loss sec teams are going to get in over some one loss teams around the country. 

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  On 2/16/2023 at 2:11 AM, PencilPusher said:

I’ll play the role of contrarian here as I believe the final grouping of 3 for Texas will not be the obvious 3 of OU, Ag, and Pig. Cant imagine that they’ll make us completely happy with our perm 3 rivals (assuming UT communicated this as their desire) while screwing longer term SEC members by not honoring all of theIr wishes.

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It isn't about making us happy. It isn't about making old school SEC members happy.

This is all about money, which means keeping the networks happy.

Do you think the networks will be happy if they don't get TX/OU, TX/aggie & TX/arkie every year? 

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  On 2/16/2023 at 1:57 PM, Josef Pwag said:

It isn't about making us happy. It isn't about making old school SEC members happy.

This is all about money, which means keeping the networks happy.

Do you think the networks will be happy if they don't get TX/OU, TX/aggie & TX/arkie every year? 

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My guess is they’d be happier with texas v lsu than arky. 

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Wake forest played NC State one year in a non conference game. Maybe it was UNC. It was a bit odd, but if the SEC misses a rivalry that two schools care about as a permanent fixture they could always choose to schedule each other as a non conference…

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  On 2/16/2023 at 1:38 PM, Mitch Cumsteen said:

With regard to Bama/LSU going away and competitive balance… I don’t think you can plan it out that way. Tennessee has been shit for forever until this year and Auburn is on their third coach in four years. You just can’t tell who is going to be good year to year. And if you check Alabama’s schedule even this year, they have auburn, tn, lsu and… Texas.  I think you’re more likely to see less ambitious ooc scheduling going forward, especially when the sec bullshit late season cream puff disappears. 

Also, as much as we look at history and rivalries and tradition, we shouldn’t overlook the real driver in all of this and that’s the tv networks. I imagine espn is pushing the agenda to get as many great matchups as possible each year. Bama v Mississippi State just isn’t going to move the needle like Bama v LSU. Why wouldn’t they want that game every year instead? And this applies conference wide. Auburn should play Georgia, Bama and Florida. Florida should play auburn, Georgia and Tennessee. A&M should should play lsu, ou and Texas. Who isn’t going to tune in to those games every week? 

As long as it’s not impacting playoff berths, the conference should be good with this too. There’s going to be a pretty good argument that three loss sec teams are going to get in over some one loss teams around the country. 

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I was looking at the list of SEC champions and two things struck me.  First, no team that has joined the SEC since 1932 has ever won an SEC championship; and second, only six teams have won an outright SEC championship since Ole Miss in 1963.  So really, Alabama, UGA, Florida, LSU, Tennessee, and Auburn are the only ones that have won championships in sixty years.  If you add Texas, OU, and A&M (purely based on willingness to spend), then you have nine potential champions and seven also-rans.  Optimal fairness would probably be to give all nine of the potential champions two other potential champions and one of the others.  Each of the others can get one or two potential champions to fill out the schedule, but it does not really matter.

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  On 2/16/2023 at 1:38 PM, Mitch Cumsteen said:

With regard to Bama/LSU going away and competitive balance… I don’t think you can plan it out that way. Tennessee has been shit for forever until this year and Auburn is on their third coach in four years. You just can’t tell who is going to be good year to year. And if you check Alabama’s schedule even this year, they have auburn, tn, lsu and… Texas.  I think you’re more likely to see less ambitious ooc scheduling going forward, especially when the sec bullshit late season cream puff disappears. 

Also, as much as we look at history and rivalries and tradition, we shouldn’t overlook the real driver in all of this and that’s the tv networks. I imagine espn is pushing the agenda to get as many great matchups as possible each year. Bama v Mississippi State just isn’t going to move the needle like Bama v LSU. Why wouldn’t they want that game every year instead? And this applies conference wide. Auburn should play Georgia, Bama and Florida. Florida should play auburn, Georgia and Tennessee. A&M should should play lsu, ou and Texas. Who isn’t going to tune in to those games every week? 

As long as it’s not impacting playoff berths, the conference should be good with this too. There’s going to be a pretty good argument that three loss sec teams are going to get in over some one loss teams around the country. 

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Hell look at the Big 12 when it was created. The North was the toughest division in football. Nebraska was at their peak, Colorado was 6 years removed from a national title, and K State was a legit contender. The South was a mess, OU was at their lowest point in history, Texas was floundering, Tech was pre Leach, OSU was somehow still worse than OU, Baylor was Baylor. A&M was the only competitive team in the bunch.

 

Things change.

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  On 2/16/2023 at 3:58 AM, Magus Ossis said:

I’m not so sure we’ll see OU/aggy as rivals. They don’t have a super-rich history together, and aggy is going to cry and whine not to have to play OU. With enough time they’ll come up with 77 different excuses.

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They had some battles in the Big 12 and they have a mutual enemy.  Geo proximity.  This can work.

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  On 2/16/2023 at 2:45 PM, YouLoveMyPenises said:

Hell look at the Big 12 when it was created. The North was the toughest division in football. Nebraska was at their peak, Colorado was 6 years removed from a national title, and K State was a legit contender. The South was a mess, OU was at their lowest point in history, Texas was floundering, Tech was pre Leach, OSU was somehow still worse than OU, Baylor was Baylor. A&M was the only competitive team in the bunch.

 

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Yep. And within 10 years the south was the best division in CFB and the North was a joke. 

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  On 2/11/2023 at 7:44 PM, bullet said:

My son goes to Auburn.  aggy was playing at Auburn the day after a parent's night.  We decided about 3 weeks before to go to parent's night.  The closest hotel we could find was in the Atlanta suburbs!  if you are going to an Auburn game, plan well ahead.

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By that line of reasoning, next trip to LSU, stay in N'AWLINS, you'll be 20-30 miles closer and anyone, fool or philosopher, would take NOLA over 'LANTA.

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  On 2/15/2023 at 7:14 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

I thought LSU-Florida parting as rivals was mutual? Both sides have bitched plenty about playing each other. 

 

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Not that I've seen.  All the Gators I know look forward to the game.  I'm sure there are some but I'd say they are a small minority.  You will hear grumbling from the die hard "Titles are the only thing that matters" guys that UGA gets an easier schedule...  but that's about all I've seen. 

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How fucking funny would Texas vs OU, A&M and LSU be with... A&M vs Texas, OU, and Arky.   

Hell one of you photoshop geniuses create and leak a memo... It would be worth is just to watch the complete mental breakdown of the Aggie base for a few hours. 

 

 

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  On 2/16/2023 at 5:26 PM, horn4life said:

How fucking funny would Texas vs OU, A&M and LSU be with... A&M vs Texas, OU, and Arky.   

Hell one of you photoshop geniuses create and leak a memo... It would be worth is just to watch the complete mental breakdown of the Aggie base for a few hours. 

 

 

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That's funny because that sounds like a pod and pods aren't happening.

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  On 2/16/2023 at 7:24 PM, Cuernavaca said:

I am personally hoping that OU draws Arkansas instead of a&m just so they don't get another game in the state of Texas every year.

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I mean, it doesn't really matter. We're the same distance from Austin to DFW. Playing in Waco, College Station, or Lubbock hasn't really improved our recruiting presence in Texas to any significant degree since we were in the Big 8, and only occasionally played in Texas other than Dallas.

 

I'd rather play Arkansas in the first place, because A&M is weird and the less we have to do with them the better. Every other year in College Station doesn't really put Oklahoma in any better spot than playing there every 4 years.

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Let's just cross our fingers. I'm sure it will all work out.
In the meantime, "wooooh them Texas boys about to catch an asswhuppin. They gon' learn you don't mess with this big, bad conference..."

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It's astonishing how wrong these writers get things, apparently just to have a "take":

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specially if it’s a nine-game schedule, ensuring that the most important, most historic rivalries — Texas-Texas A&M, Georgia–Auburn, Alabama–Tennessee — will happen on an annual basis, no matter what, and the other matchups aren’t a huge deal.

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Texas-Texas A&M?

Georgia-Auburn?

Alabama-Tennessee?

 

Yeah, Texas-Texas A&M is an historic rivarly, but it pales in comparison to Texas-OU, as 'bama-Tennessee  pales to ''bama-Auburn and frankly Georgia-Auburn pales to Georgia-Florida (and maybe Georgia-Tennessee, if not just because of good old southern hate).

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  On 2/16/2023 at 8:54 PM, Cairn Horn88 said:

Let's just cross our fingers. I'm sure it will all work out.
In the meantime, "wooooh them Texas boys about to catch an asswhuppin. They gon' learn you don't mess with this big, bad conference..."

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Indeed.  We actually hate the SEC, and this is part of our plan to destroy it from the inside.

Mission KPIs are all green and mission objectives well within reach.

Fuck the SEC.

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