16 teams in a conference for football is just stupid.
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16 teams in a conference for football is just stupid.
I listened to Dellenger on SEC Radio and he said the three teams chosen were in order of "rivalry". So, to the SEC we have a secondary rivalry with UK and A&M. Which I can kind of see. Especially UK of late. Their fans really don't like us. And we seem to have A&M's number. Even when they were really good, outside of Johnny Football, we'd beat them regularly.
Gotcha. I assume they are going to start with the rotating teams on the same basis that they did the permanent opponents. Rank them on performance the past ten years and balance them out the best they can. Probably won't be able to follow that exactly when it comes down to it, but guessing they will at least start there, assuming they did the permanent opponents the way they claimed.
We'll eventually get to 20 and they'll split it into essentially 2 different conferences...or at least that's what they should do. You play everybody on your side every year, and there's a championship game between each champion.
I think I have read somewhere before that we have played Alabama and Auburn more than any other school in the league. We have played LSU a lot too. It?s something stupid like that
Well, one thing is for damn sure, there wouldn't be a flag thrown..........
Yeah but one good hire and TAMU is going to be tough with all their money. The fact that they are going to be even more willing to spend now that they have Texas every year is scary. They aren't going to want to lose to them every year. Watch them get a new AD and start doing better. At least it isn't BAMA.
Cohen better enjoy his time at Auburn. Freeze magic might have just run out. However if freeze does well then Cohen can coast
Yup. The rest of the SEC got pretty lucky with the Jimbo hire. It looked pretty good at the time. Instead he's been just good enough to not want to spend $90M or whatever it is now to fire him. Not that it's so easy to go find the next Saban or Kirby or even Brian Kelly. But the more they spend on godfather offers to coaches like Jimbo, the fewer chances they have to get it right.
With State playing 9 SEC a season, they are losing an OOC game. Do you still schedule a OOC Power 5 team with such a stuff schedule? Do they only schedule Group of 5 and FCS teams? If FCS teams are cut, those small schools are losing a lot of money
We've got a lot of P5 OOC games under contract. I doubt we're going to pony up to get out of them even if the SEC does away with the P5 requirement. I think with 9 SEC games and a P5 OOC game, we'll probably try to have one G5 game and 1 FCS game. If all the SEC schools drop a G5 game rather than the FCS game, that will be about $18M that G5 schools don't get, just from teh current 14 SEC teams (that's going off the average of $1.3M per G5 buy game from 2020). Of course we're already doing some 2-1 games and I'd assume some other schools are also, so it may not be quite that much. And I imagine that the average pay for a buy game may come down with the demand coming down. That will work out to somewhere north of $250k per G5 and independent school (excluding BYU).