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Eight or Nine Game SEC Schedule


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22 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Florida > tech

Arkansas > Baylor

Kentucky > TCU 

Vandy > Houston/cinci

Mississippi state > Okie lite

Georgia > all of em

 aggy more fun to play than k state or Iowa state or any of em

especially now they’ve watered down the conference so bad, the SEC is just better every week. 

Three of those are just wrong, not to mention using Cincinnati and Houston is absurd because they wouldn't be in the Big 12 if Texas and OU didn't leave.

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13 hours ago, markstanco said:


How can both of them get out of that contract though. Apparently it really does have teeth.

FSU's lawyers have said ESPN could end it in June 2027

https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/198512536-Amended-Complaint-1.pdf

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The following spring, the ACC and ESPN renegotiated key terms, which generated the May 9, 2012, ACC-ESPN Amendment (the “2012 ACC-ESPN Amendment”), which was to expire June of 2027.

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 It is a widely repeated misconception that the ACC’s multi-media rights agreement expires in 2036. As explained below, in truth, the multi-media rights agreement expires in 2027 unless ESPN chooses to exercise its unilateral option.

I think all of these lawsuits are smoke and mirrors.

If we've learned anything in this era of never-going-away-realignment talk, it's this: if the big cigars and ESPN think it will be good for business, any team can go to any conference.

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14 hours ago, markstanco said:


How can both of them get out of that contract though. Apparently it really does have teeth.

I thought I read that if enough ACC teams agree to leave, the ACC GOR has no teeth.

 

i wouldn’t be shocked if North Carolina was offered a spot in the SEC for basketball reasons.

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2 minutes ago, lilMAC25 said:

I thought I read that if enough ACC teams agree to leave, the ACC GOR has no teeth.

 

i wouldn’t be shocked if North Carolina was offered a spot in the SEC for basketball reasons.

Belichick in shambles. Can he handle coaching in a conference that Just Means More? I don't see him thriving in high-stakes environments.

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Observation- neither CFP finalist played in a conference CG. As a matter of fact, Ohio State, eliminated from the B1G CG by their loss to Michigan, and motivated by that same loss to re-evaluate everything, used their three weeks off before the first CFp game against Tennessee to re-engineer their run game to a more counter-based scheme, and to redo their DL substitution philosophy. These changes have a lot to do with their dominance in the CFP- they were always this talented, but they really used their three weeks off, in a way that counterparts Indiana and Tennessee didn’t (or couldn’t). 
 
Teams in conference CGs didn’t have the time for such prep work. They had to plan for the CGs, and then had two weeks for the CFP. (UGA lost their two year starter at QB in the SEC CG). 
 
What does that have to do with the SEC schedule length? There is a lot of talk that the teams that were in favor of a nine game schedule (the stronger teams) might be less so, seeing how the CFP is such a weekly grind. I would argue that the SEC CG is a greater hindrance to a CFP run than a ninth league game. 
 
Who does the SEC CG really benefit, other than the teams that aren’t in it (they get a share of media money). 
 
I think we are seeing that, while the BCS and four team CFP were just natural extensions of the regular season, the 12 team CFP tournament is almost a a different season. 
 
Would the SEC be best off if it told the network (ABC/ESPN is the only SEC media partner?) “you can have a nine game league schedule, and no conference CG, for the money that the B1G gets (or more, I guess, if that can be negotiated)”? I ask that, because although I was a big proponent of the nine game league schedule, I’m wavering now that we see the impact of a tougher regular season schedule, a CG, and then the CFP. 

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