State, LSU, TAMU, Texas

[maroonmania]

We are nowhere near Alabama's preferred top 3. Alabama is very likely to get Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU, but if they don't get one of those, we're not next up for them.

If this is legit, we've got Ole Miss, A&M, and either Kentucky or Auburn as our third.

Good, they are nowhere near ours either.

[Todd4State]

Good, they are nowhere near ours either.

Amen. I'm completely on board with an Ole Miss, Kentucky, A&M pod. Getting Alabama out of the rotation gives us a chance at a big year every now and then.

[Quaoarsking]

The rumor is that the scheduling formula would have two informal tiers. Everyone would get two permanent opponents from their own tier and 1 from the other tier.

TIER 1: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M
TIER 2: Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

I was thinking our most likely set was Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Auburn, but Texas A&M also works in place of Auburn. This is assuming this tier pattern holds, which hasn't been named officially.

A lot of A&M fans were wondering why wouldn't get Arkansas, but I'm betting Arkansas got Texas as their Tier 1 permanent, meaning they aren't available to be A&M's Tier 2. It's going to be tough to make everyone happy, so they'll end up making Alabama, Georgia, and Texas happy and everyone else will just get to "fine, I can live with that."

[Todd4State]

The rumor is that the scheduling formula would have two informal tiers. Everyone would get two permanent opponents from their own tier and 1 from the other tier.

TIER 1: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M
TIER 2: Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

I was thinking our most likely set was Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Auburn, but Texas A&M also works in place of Auburn. This is assuming this tier pattern holds, which hasn't been named officially.

A lot of A&M fans were wondering why wouldn't get Arkansas, but I'm betting Arkansas got Texas as their Tier 1 permanent, meaning they aren't available to be A&M's Tier 2. It's going to be tough to make everyone happy, so they'll end up making Alabama, Georgia, and Texas happy and everyone else will just get to "fine, I can live with that."

Ah. So they've basically regulated the SEC? I'm sure the SEC remembers our 1998-1999 schedule and want to avoid a school like MSU having to play Vanderbilt, a then 1-10 South Carolina, and Kentucky.

[parabrave]

The rumor is that the scheduling formula would have two informal tiers. Everyone would get two permanent opponents from their own tier and 1 from the other tier.

TIER 1: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M
TIER 2: Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

I was thinking our most likely set was Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Auburn, but Texas A&M also works in place of Auburn. This is assuming this tier pattern holds, which hasn't been named officially.

A lot of A&M fans were wondering why wouldn't get Arkansas, but I'm betting Arkansas got Texas as their Tier 1 permanent, meaning they aren't available to be A&M's Tier 2. It's going to be tough to make everyone happy, so they'll end up making Alabama, Georgia, and Texas happy and everyone else will just get to "fine, I can live with that."

A&M played LSU every year up until the 1dt SEC Expansion.