re: 1-7 scheduling model gaining momentum per SI’s Ross Dellinger

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Well unfortunately we can't go back to 1990 and just stay at 10.

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Has nothing to do with that. We play 2 more regular season games than we did when we only had 8 teams in the conference and teams still weren't playing every other school in the SEC with any sort of regularity. My issue is more with this imperative everyone seems to be on board with that every team should play one another in a short amount of time. That's never been the case in this conference, so why is that such a hard line item right now? Why does LSU need to play Missouri every 2-3 years? Why does South Carolina need to play Oklahoma every 2-3 years? I'd be perfectly fine with maintaining divisions, continuing to play everyone in your division every year, having one permanent cross-division and two rotating teams in a 10 game SEC schedule or just make one rotating team like we have now in a 9 game schedule. IMO, that takes care of more fans' actual wants than any other proposal on the table and doesn't get rid of any of the games people don't want to lose.

So you only get to schedule one scrub OOC each year for the teams who play P5 rivalry games? Big deal. Hell, for all we know, we could be playing 13 game regular season schedules in no time.

Of course they'll never do this, because apparently someone like Texas going 7 years without playing someone like Vandy would be a problem.

And it's almost like people forget when we first went to divisions, you played everyone in your division, had TWO permanent cross-division games, and one rotating game. I don't recall it being such a big deal that you went 8 years in between road trips to your rotating teams. Why is it a big deal now?