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2025 Schedule

At this point I am more interested in what the 2026 schedule will look like once they decide on annual games. I know I am in the minority here but Ai really wish they went to a 9 game conf schedule with 4 every year opponents and rotate the other 5 games every year.
 
At this point I am more interested in what the 2026 schedule will look like once they decide on annual games. I know I am in the minority here but Ai really wish they went to a 9 game conf schedule with 4 every year opponents and rotate the other 5 games every year.

It looks like a good possibility based on some of the SEC's preliminary discussions last year about future scheduling. With 16 teams, each team would have three permanent opponents, and then flip back and forth between the remaining 12 teams, alternating 6 and 6. One scenario for OU is to have Texas, Missouri and Arkansas as the permanent opponents.
 
It looks like a good possibility based on some of the SEC's preliminary discussions last year about future scheduling. With 16 teams, each team would have three permanent opponents, and then flip back and forth between the remaining 12 teams, alternating 6 and 6. One scenario for OU is to have Texas, Missouri and Arkansas as the permanent opponents.
That was my understanding also.
 
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To answer your question bama, hell yeah I blame texsa. How could they get such a cushy schedule compared with OUs ?
(Mostly tongue in cheek)
Even though they are stacked they have blown it most likely and I love it !
 
To answer your question bama, hell yeah I blame texsa. How could they get such a cushy schedule compared with OUs ?
(Mostly tongue in cheek)
Even though they are stacked they have blown it most likely and I love it !
The only SEC team I want to see win is Tennessee vs Ohio St. I dislike OSU as much as I do Texas, USC snd ND. After that I hope they lose in the quarter finsls along with UGA. No SEC teams in the Semi’s would make me happy. Piss on this conference honking crap.
 
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It looks like a good possibility based on some of the SEC's preliminary discussions last year about future scheduling. With 16 teams, each team would have three permanent opponents, and then flip back and forth between the remaining 12 teams, alternating 6 and 6. One scenario for OU is to have Texas, Missouri and Arkansas as the permanent opponents.
I just don't know why they don't do East and West. That is 8 Teams per Division, so there's 7 games and then you rotate every year with 2 teams from the opposite Division giving you 9 games. West Teams: OU, UT, Ark, LSU, A&M, Mizzou, Miss, Miss St. / East Teams: Bama, Auburn, UGA, Florida, Kentucky, Tenn, Vandy and SC.
 
I just don't know why they don't do East and West. That is 8 Teams per Division, so there's 7 games and then you rotate every year with 2 teams from the opposite Division giving you 9 games. West Teams: OU, UT, Ark, LSU, A&M, Mizzou, Miss, Miss St. / East Teams: Bama, Auburn, UGA, Florida, Kentucky, Tenn, Vandy and SC.

One of the main reasons that the bigger conferences are getting rid of divisions is because of the inequity that develops. They might start out balanced, but they invariably end up lopsided like the SEC West used to be, or the ACC Atlantic. By eliminating divisions, they can ensure that every team will play every other team at least twice every four years, home and away. They can also ensure that the teams with the two best conference records end up in the conference championship game instead of games like #1 Auburn 56 #19 South Carolina 17 in 2010, #1 Alabama 42 #14 Missouri 13 in 2013, #1 Alabama 54 #15 Florida 16, etc.

It was similarly bad in the Big Ten with divisions, where you had travesties like #2 Michigan blowing out unranked Purdue in 2022, or in the ACC where you had games like #3 Clemson 62 #22 Virginia 17 in 2019.
 
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