SEC Adopts 9 Games

[BrunswickDawg]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...dule-strength/


No need for them to announce the 2026 MSU schedule. I'm sure it will be:
Bama
LSU
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
UGA
Tennessee
Florida
Auburn

[Quaoarsking]

Our permanent opponents will probably be Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Kentucky, but it's possible that Auburn gets in there.

[smootness]

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...dule-strength/


No need for them to announce the 2026 MSU schedule. I'm sure it will be:
Bama
LSU
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
UGA
Tennessee
Florida
Auburn

Any guesses on our 3 permanents? Obviously Ole Miss, I am hoping Kentucky, and then I am sure Bama or Texas or someone like that. It may be more like OM, Bama, and LSU.

[Quaoarsking]

Any guesses on our 3 permanents? Obviously Ole Miss, I am hoping Kentucky, and then I am sure Bama or Texas or someone like that. It may be more like OM, Bama, and LSU.

Alabama and LSU have other priorities. Texas will take Arkansas as their third probably (after Oklahoma and Texas A&M)

[BrunswickDawg]

Any guesses on our 3 permanents? Obviously Ole Miss, I am hoping Kentucky, and then I am sure Bama or Texas or someone like that. It may be more like OM, Bama, and LSU.

That will be interesting. If they really are focusing on SOS, then they should pair off a number of "have not" programs so the "have" schools maximize SOS. Stick us with Vandy, OM, and SC or Arkansas so we don't hurt the SOS of the "real" programs. I'm certain that will work out.****

[Quaoarsking]

It's already been reported/rumored that there are 8 "more prestigious" programs in the conference and 8 "lesa prestigious" programs, and everyone will get 2 opponents in their own tier and 1 in the other tier.

So for example, Auburn definitely gets Georgia and Alabama, so their 3rd will be someone like Vanderbilt or us, or Arkansas, etc.

We will get Ole Miss for sure. I predict A&M for our more prestigious opponent, but it could be Auburn. For our 3rd, we'll get stuck with someone, and I suspect Kentucky.

The wrinkle in this is that a couple years ago, Tennessee was in the less prestigious half, meaning Alabama could have Auburn, LSU (highest rated game most years), and Tennessee, but is that fair? I would say still yes because they never have to play themselves, but they'll argue they should drop LSU for someone weaker. Not sure if the networks will want that though.

[Coach34]

Also- schools will be required to play 1 game against a team in a P4

[viverlibre]

Any guesses on our 3 permanents? Obviously Ole Miss, I am hoping Kentucky, and then I am sure Bama or Texas or someone like that. It may be more like OM, Bama, and LSU.

Oh, we'll get screwed while OM gets Vandy, LSU and us. I'd bet we get Bama as one of the two other than OM.

[viverlibre]

It's already been reported/rumored that there are 8 "more prestigious" programs in the conference and 8 "lesa prestigious" programs, and everyone will get 2 opponents in their own tier and 1 in the other tier.

So for example, Auburn definitely gets Georgia and Alabama, so their 3rd will be someone like Vanderbilt or us, or Arkansas, etc.

We will get Ole Miss for sure. I predict A&M for our more prestigious opponent, but it could be Auburn. For our 3rd, we'll get stuck with someone, and I suspect Kentucky.

The wrinkle in this is that a couple years ago, Tennessee was in the less prestigious half, meaning Alabama could have Auburn, LSU (highest rated game most years), and Tennessee, but is that fair? I would say still yes because they never have to play themselves, but they'll argue they should drop LSU for someone weaker. Not sure if the networks will want that though.

I'd take the barn, but obviously would rather have Vandy.

[Quaoarsking]

[R2Dawg]

Our permanent opponents will probably be Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Kentucky, but it's possible that Auburn gets in there.

I'd rather swap Aub for TAMU.

[smootness]

Our permanent opponents will probably be Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and Kentucky, but it's possible that Auburn gets in there.

We should be ecstatic if that is it.

[BrunswickDawg]

We should be ecstatic if that is it.

Yep - 3 teams that we should be able to beat at least half the time.
KY - we lead 26-24 all time
A&M - we are 8-9 all time, 5-5 over last 10 in SEC play
OM - we are close 50/50 since games returned to campus in '91

[confucius say]

Yep - 3 teams that we should be able to beat at least half the time.
KY - we lead 26-24 all time
A&M - we are 8-9 all time, 5-5 over last 10 in SEC play
OM - we are close 50/50 since games returned to campus in '91

BFTGE is 17-17 since going back to campus in 91

[Todd4State]

The SEC owes us a reasonable schedule for once. I understand it's the SEC and you can't avoid everyone like Bama, Georgia, Texas, and LSU but playing as many playoff teams as we are going to this year is setting us up- and pretty much anyone else- for failure.

The second thing is MSU is going to have to be a little bit smarter with their P4 opponent. The first thing is don't schedule opponents 10 years out. And I'm just randomly making this up as an example but Texas Tech might be a 3-9 team when we schedule them but when we actually play them they might be a 10-2 team on the road. Also scheduling teams out that far in advance pretty much eliminates the possibility of us playing in a Kickoff Classic. And if we're going to play people like Purdue, Wake Forest, or Rutgers- yeah MSU is going to have to pay.

[Coach34]

We have Minnesota the next 2 seasons I think.

We are cooked in football.

[CaptainObvious]

We have Minnesota the next 2 seasons I think.

We are cooked in football.

So we can go 3-9 every year in the SEC and thank them for the nice check that doesn't help us get better or we can go 7-5 to 9-3 in the Sunbelt and go to a bowl every year with the odd chance of winning the league at 10-2 and making a playoff. But everyone thinks we are better off going 3-9 just so we can say we are a Bottom 4 team in the prestigious SEC. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

SEC: Hey State here is your 2-10 to 3-9 schedule every year but enjoy your nice check and make sure you spend it all on 2 and 3 star athletes and Inexperinced head coaches!!!

[confucius say]

Some loser posts in here.

[PGHBulldogBG]

So we can go 3-9 every year in the SEC and thank them for the nice check that doesn't help us get better or we can go 7-5 to 9-3 in the Sunbelt and go to a bowl every year with the odd chance of winning the league at 10-2 and making a playoff. But everyone thinks we are better off going 3-9 just so we can say we are a Bottom 4 team in the prestigious SEC. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

SEC: Hey State here is your 2-10 to 3-9 schedule every year but enjoy your nice check and make sure you spend it all on 2 and 3 star athletes and Inexperinced head coaches!!!

The issue here is that if we don?t stay in the SEC we will eventually be left out and moved to a 2nd tier league. Over the next 5 to 10 years there are only going to be two conferences with either 20 or 24 teams. We need to make sure we stay put in order to secure our future. It won?t happen until the ACC splits, but that will be coming soon

[confucius say]

Just biding time until full rev share and some type of collective bargaining.