New SEC football scheduling format

True dat.

But I'm guessing that many of those teams played either 1 FCS team + one horrible FBS team and never left the south. Alabama, if memory serves, is the only SEC team during that run to leave the south -- at Penn State in 2011?

 

2013: auburn vs. Wazzu (no idea if there is a return trip on sked)
2012: Alabama vs. Michigan (Arlington)
2011: Alabama at Penn State
2011: LSU vs. Oregon (Arlington), at WVa.
2010: Auburn vs. Clemson
2009: Alabama vs. Va. Tech (Atlanta)
2008: Florida vs. Miami, at Florida State
2007: LSU vs. Va. Tech
2006: Florida at Fla. State

Pretty legitimate, IMO.

 

I almost wwant to root for Georgia for playing three teams out of the four that actually have a pulse...

http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/geo-m-footbl-sched.html

Clemson
Ga Tech
South Carolina
Charleston Southern on Nov 22nd

 

So out of five teams each year one will play a decent team in non-con?

Every team should try and schedule in non-con a game they will be an underdog, a game that is a 50/50 and a game they should win.

The SEC teams schedule on 70/30 win loss game and then three dogs, and many of them get one of these dogs in November, which is basically another bye week.

2014 USC FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Aug. 30 – Fresno State
Sept. 6 – at Stanford
Sept. 13 – at Boston College
Sept. 27 – Oregon State
Oct. 4 – Arizona State
Oct. 11 – at Arizona
Oct. 18 – Colorado
Oct. 25 – at Utah
Nov. 1 – at Washington State
Nov. 13 (Th.) – California
Nov. 22 – at UCLA
Nov. 29 – Notre Dame

2014 UCLA Football Schedule

Aug. 30 at Virginia
Sept. 6 Memphis
Sept. 13 Texas @ AT&T Stadium
Sept. 20 BYE
Sept. 25 at Arizona State (Thu.)
Oct. 4 Utah
Oct. 11 Oregon
Oct. 18 at California
Oct. 25 at Colorado
Nov. 1 Arizona (Homecoming)
Nov. 8 at Washington
Nov. 15 BYE
Nov. 22 USC
Nov. 28 Stanford (Fri.)

 

Can't give 'em too much credit for that Sakerlna game. Being an SEC East game and all.

 

Shit. For some reason I think they are in ACC. But at least they schedule two games against decent teams and not the Sisters of the Poor.

 

93,

Would that make for fantastic football? Sure. It would also get a lot of coaches (or maybe more accurately ADs) fired.

 

Not sure I'm qualified to speak for all SEC fandom, but I'm good with the way my school (South Carolina) plays it: Clemson every year and an additional ACC school pretty much every other year (generally when the Clemson game is a hem game).

2013: vs. North Carolina, vs. Clemson
2014: at Clemson and 3 should-be gimmes
2015: vs. Clemson, North Carolina in Charlotte

Guessing we might see more SEC schools playing regional neutral-site games. Covers the rule, still make money and still allows fans to get to game.

 

South Carolina is in the SEC.

 

So easy to do . . . seven years in advance.

And so, so, so easy to do if you're an elite team and your pick of teams in which you MIGHT be an underdog against can be counted on one hand.

 

Agreed. All a team can and should do is try to schedule opponents with comparable histories and track records. Alabama has played Michigan and Penn State in recent years. When those games were scheduled, they sure didn't look like the mismatches they eventually were. Also, a number of schools have longstanding annual rivalry nonconference games that will never be abandoned, Clemson-South Carolina, Florida-Florida State, USC-Notre Dame, etc. Some years, those will be mismatches one way or the other, but who on earth would want those games to go away?

 

Right. Is there anywhere outside the SEC Alabama, Auburn or LSU would be an underdog?

At Florida State probably (though not until the last two years or so) and maybe at Oregon or Oklahoma.

That's about it.