"Auburn's Gonna Win the Football Game"

[Johnson85]

If UF had won, I think Bama would have been SEC champ at 6-1; and UGA, MSU, and UF would have finished in a tie for second at 5-1. Odd schedule note - Bama and Ole Miss both played 7 SEC games in 1980 and 1981. Any of you older guys remember why?

Was there somebody that had to forfeit that year because of sanctions or ineligible players or something? I think back in the day, forfeited wins dropped off of the opponents record also, and when they switched to "vacating" wins, the losing team was still stuck with the loss on the schedule. Is it possible that everybody played 7 games but there was an east team that forfeited to make it look like a lot of people only played 6 by record?

ETA: Looked at the schedule and that's not it. I'm guessing maybe somebody used a non-SEC slot to schedule an extra SEC game and it wasn't officially a conference game, and people compiling records have just over time stopped notating which one was official?

ETA2: With it being Bama and Ole MIss with 7 games in 1980 and 1981, I'm thinking maybe they weren't scheduled to play each other by the conference for some reason so they added each other as "nonconference" games?