(05-10-2022 12:40 AM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(05-09-2022 09:29 PM)Porcine Wrote:  

(05-09-2022 08:56 PM)GoBuckeyes1047 Wrote:  Here's a thought for SEC divisionless scheduling. If the SEC wants to a conference semifinal for the top 4 or to just stay at 8 conference games, use 4+1 protected rivals. 4 conference rivals are annual with a 5th rival played 4 times in 6 years. Everyone else is played home & home in 6 years.

The 9th conference game is 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 for the conference semi-finals with the 2 winners meeting in the CCG. For non-championship participates, teams are paired into either 5-8, 9-12, 13-16 groups or 5-10, 11-16 groups, and teams are matched up based on the groups with an emphasis on rivalry games missed.

Obviously, it would be tough with the ACC-SEC games thanksgiving weekend unless the ACC did something similar adding a conference semifinal with divisionless scheduling and all leagues with conference semis moved their traditional rivalry week to the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Now if there was no conference semi-final games for the SEC with a 9 game conference schedule, then I would agree that the SEC needs 6 protected rivals while rotating everyone else home & home every 6 years.

We could moved all the big rivalry games to week 1. Kentucky and Louisville did that before that last weekend was cookie-cuttered.

True on Kentucky-Louisville, but there was no way Georgia-Tech, Clemson-South Carolina, and Florida-Florida State were going to do that. A lot of tradition in all three of those games.

I don't think they would either, but there have been more than a few no ways happening, lately. The off-season would get a lot more interesting.