Question for the Board......

[pssooner]

Was just flipping around channels and ran across Finebaum, they are talking about South Carolina and Alabama this weekend.
So here is my question.... how can you be in the same conference and this be the first meeting since 2010? How is that possible???

 

[Oklabama]

I don’t get it either. The SEC has strange intra-conference scheduling. Maybe it’s because South Carolina won the last game between the two schools in 2010 and Bama said “*uck it” we’re not playing them any more. Lol

 

[JConXtsy]

West = 7 teams
East = 7 teams

Play all 6 division opponents
Play 1 permanent opposite division opponent (Alabama plays Tenn every year... South Carolina plays aTm every year)
Play 1 rotating opposite division opponent (so each of the other division teams once every 6 years)

So an east and a west division team only play each other once every 6 years unless they are permanent yearly opponents.

Since aTm and Missouri joined in 2012, my guess is that the schedules got bumped a bit and/or reset. Since South Carolina played Bama in 2010, they would have played again in 2016, but the addition of aTm and Missouri reset the rotating opponents.

 

[iasooner1]

Go Gamecocks !

 

[trademarcs]

It’s whatever gets them the easiest route to the playoffs

 

[Plainosooner]

Was just flipping around channels and ran across Finebaum, they are talking about South Carolina and Alabama this weekend.
So here is my question.... how can you be in the same conference and this be the first meeting since 2010? How is that possible???

Pretty simple. The SEC has two seven team divisions. Each team only plays two teams from the other division. AND, each team has an annual opponent from the other division. They started doing this in 2010.

So they only alternate games with one other team from the other division, which would be six teams. I'm not sure why they repeated teams before a rematch with South Carolina. I suspect it had something to do with the changes in 2010. Since then, Bama plays UTenn every year. And then there had to be adjustments when A&M and Mizzou entered the conference in 2012. Taking seven teams from six team schedules, causes some disruption.

 

[td71sooner]

Pretty simple. The SEC has two seven team divisions. Each team only plays two teams from the other division. AND, each team has an annual opponent from the other division. They started doing this in 2010.

So they only alternate games with one other team from the other division, which would be six teams. I'm not sure why they repeated teams before a rematch with South Carolina. I suspect it had something to do with the changes in 2010. Since then, Bama plays UTenn every year. And then there had to be adjustments when A&M and Mizzou entered the conference in 2012. Taking seven teams from six team schedules, causes some disruption.

Didn't @JConXtsy already provide this answer earlier in the thread?

 

[Plainosooner]

Didn't @JConXtsy already provide this answer earlier in the thread?

I guess he did. I didn't see it. My bad.

Not the first time.