SEC looking toward nine-game football league schedule...

[Gator Fever]

SEC has 'ample support' for 9-game league slate

There is mounting momentum among Southeastern Conference athletic departments to go from eight conference games to nine in football once Oklahoma and Texas join the league, sources told ESPN's Chris Low.

www.espn.com

"The league's athletic directors held their regularly scheduled meeting earlier this week. Administrators and coaches from multiple schools in the league said the feeling now is that the SEC will ultimately land at nine conference games with a 3-6 format when the new scheduling model is announced.

Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher told ESPN this week he thinks nine games is "probably the best scenario. That way, you can keep alive the rivalries and the secondary rivalries, because in this league the secondary rivalries are almost as important as the primary rivalries."

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian has said it was important that the Longhorns be able to play Oklahoma and Texas A&M every year once his school begins play in the SEC. The only way to do that would be to play nine games with a 3-6 model."
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Sounds like its basically a done deal. Curious to see how it will be setup with the 3-6 format and how you make it to the SECCG-(pods)? Will we keep LSU yearly?

 

[LizardGrad89]

SEC has 'ample support' for 9-game league slate

There is mounting momentum among Southeastern Conference athletic departments to go from eight conference games to nine in football once Oklahoma and Texas join the league, sources told ESPN's Chris Low.

www.espn.com

"The league's athletic directors held their regularly scheduled meeting earlier this week. Administrators and coaches from multiple schools in the league said the feeling now is that the SEC will ultimately land at nine conference games with a 3-6 format when the new scheduling model is announced.

Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher told ESPN this week he thinks nine games is "probably the best scenario. That way, you can keep alive the rivalries and the secondary rivalries, because in this league the secondary rivalries are almost as important as the primary rivalries."

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian has said it was important that the Longhorns be able to play Oklahoma and Texas A&M every year once his school begins play in the SEC. The only way to do that would be to play nine games with a 3-6 model."
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Sounds like its basically a done deal. Curious to see how it will be setup with the 3-6 format and how you make it to the SECCG-(pods)? Will we keep LSU yearly?

Has to be nine games.

Pods will have 4 teams each, so that is three annual games.
Three other divisions, play 2 from each division, that's six games that can rotate between the teams. They can do it similar to how they do it now.

Say Florida is in Pod 1, and Pod 2 is Bama, Auburn, Tennessee and Vandy.

So in year 1, you play Bama home and UT road.
Year 2, you play UT home and Auburn road.
Year 3, you play Auburn home and Vandy road.
Year 4, you play Vandy home and Bama road.

So in four years, you have played a home and home with every team in Pod 2. Do the same for Pods 3 and 4, and in 4 years you have played at least one home and home against every other team in the SEC. If I recall, that was a goal of the commissioner, to be able to tell recruits that if they stayed 4 years they would get to play on every SEC field. Can't do that with 8 games, so I've assumed 9 games was coming.

 

[instaGATOR]

Works for me...

 

[Gator Fever]

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina

Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss,

Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Missouri
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Any other guesses? I think Texas is insisting that Oklahoma & Texas A&M is in their pod.

 

[sadgator]

sadgator hates to see the divisions end, but it is coming as is the 12 team playoff expansion….

the future is here…like it or not…

 

[LizardGrad89]

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina

Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss,

Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Missouri
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Any other guesses? I think Texas is insisting that Oklahoma & Texas A&M is in their pod.

That's what I see as well.

Only caveat is if the SEC doesn't want to segregate all the former Big 12 teams from the rest of the league. In that case I could see Missouri swapping with Arkansas (never a Big 12 school, came to the SEC from the SWC).

 

[sadgator]

It would be funny as hell if they stuck A&M and Missouri back with those teams in the”Big 12” pod. We could just refer to it as the “outsiders.”

 

[Jeff from Jax]

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina

Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

LSU, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss,

Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Missouri
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Any other guesses? I think Texas is insisting that Oklahoma & Texas A&M is in their pod.

Fever,

Texas is the FNG; why do they get to demand anything ?

Sarkisian will not be around if he diesn't win more than 5 games this year.

 

[instaGATOR]

Fever,

Texas is the FNG; why do they get to demand anything ?

Sarkisian will not be around if he diesn't win more than 5 games this year.

My thought exactly. The shorthorns and the swooners ran the Big 12, but they are just the newest beggar additions to the SEC after the SEC virtually shoved the Big12 into a corner.

They don't get to demand anything, but they can make suggestions or requests and then wait for the SEC's reply. It's a new day, and they don't run anything in the SEC. They don't like it that way, then they can stay Big 12 or beg their way into some other lesser conference....