New SEC football scheduling format

well played, Hoosiers
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24543532/indiana-is-waiting-for-your-call-sec-team

 

I think the mid-majors should do this. Have a MAC-Sun Belt Challenge to start every year. They'd willingly allow ESPN to do it like basketball, too, with games every night for a week. "It's Tuesday night in Bowling Green, Ohio, where the Falcons host Texas State."

 

The Pac-12 and Big Ten were supposed to have a scheduling arrangement in which every Pac-12 team would play a Big Ten team but I think the Big Ten backed out when it adopted a nine-game conference schedule. Too bad.

 

I've always been a sucker for the games like LSU-Oregon or Alabama-Michigan.

It would be great if every team in a BCS conference had to play one game a year, early in the season, against a major conference team outside of their region. If everybody did it, there would be less bitching about it. Hell, make it completely random and if you travel one year, you're at home the next year.

Even the bad matchups, something like Washington State vs. Iowa State or Indiana vs. Georgia Tech would be a lot more interesting than what we usually are force fed during Week 2 and 3 of the season.

 

Nope. The Pac 12 backed out because of its scheduling issues.

The Big Ten was at eight games at the time; Pac 12 at nine.

The breakdown of the package contributed to the Big Ten eventually voting to go to a nine-game schedule.

 

Define "region". Are you saying you'd rather see Alabama play Washington State than FSU? You'd rather see LSU play Syracuse than Texas? Just for the sake of being outside some predetermined notion of a region?

 

Kind of interesting

http://msn.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/fake-sec-fans-fight-cost-of-sec-network.php

 

OK thanks, I'd forgotten the details. Too bad either way. But the local school plays Big Ten teams once in a while in home-and-homes and they are fun.

 

Well, obviously outside of the conference, but I wouldn't mind if they tried to have games where teams are playing on the opposite side of the country. Obviously, I'd rather see Alabama play Florida State than a shitty Pac-12 team, but I'd rather see games like Alabama-Oregon, Michigan-Florida, Ohio State-Florida State, LSU-USC. When I was in high school, Penn State had a home and home with USC and I remember going down there for it and it was really cool to be able to see a program like that playing in California.

 

Alabama and Penn State had a 10-year home-and-home from 1981-90. But that was back when Penn State was an independent and Alabama was only playing 6 SEC games a year.

 

Steak is right. Conference expansion has dealt a lethal blow to what used to be called intersectional games. On the other hand, many conference games are now be intersectional games. Maryland-Minnesota, Texas A&M-Georgia when that happens, West Virginia-Oklahoma, etc.