May 6, 2020 · 12:38 PM

Fourteen SEC coaches can’t be wrong.

Why we can’t have nice (i.e., a nine-game conference schedule) things, in one tweet.

As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke…

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12 responses to “Fourteen SEC coaches can’t be wrong.”

  1. Otto
    May 6, 2020 at 12:59 PM

    I have regularly been in favor of the 8 game SEC schedule and the championships pay the bills.

    I would like to see the SEC to mandate 2 P5 or BCS Crasher (which would be approved with a limit over 5-10 year span) out of conference games. If the team does not meet the schedule requirement their SEC payout would be reduced.

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  2. JD
    May 6, 2020 at 1:02 PM

    Yeah, it’s that extra conference games that keeps them out. I think there’s some sort of saying about apples vs oranges. But I digress…

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  3. Hobnail_Boot
    May 6, 2020 at 1:32 PM

    Talk about using stats to make a story.

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  4. willypmd
    May 6, 2020 at 1:37 PM

    SEC is the richest and deepest league.

    More confidence games punishes a conference for being competitive.

    I’m in favor of decreasing conference games and mandating more power 5’s

    Let Auburn beat Oregon, UGA beat Clemson (hopefully) and LSU beat Texas in the regular season to keep them from back-dooring into playoff over the SEC championship loser.

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  5. Classic City Canine
    May 6, 2020 at 1:58 PM

    This is why we need pod scheduling instead. No coach is signing up for 9 games and the AD’s won’t do it unless the TV suits really push them.

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  6. Tony BarnFart
    May 6, 2020 at 3:53 PM

    I don’t want 9 conference games to go with a permanent ACC opponent. I want to keep 8 but scrap the permanency of division makeup. We’re doing our part to add great P5 OOC games, I’d hate to risk that flexibility by confining that slot to a pool of 6 non-auburn west teams when we could just make a few tweaks to play them more anyway.

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  7. UGA '97
    May 6, 2020 at 5:23 PM

    out of context sense, it’s the Full Body of Work that sends a team to the CFP, and those P5 OOC games, Kickoff Classics, Conf Champ games, kinda help.

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  8. ASEF
    May 6, 2020 at 5:58 PM

    Strong correlation between conferences that require 9 game schedules for extra media rights $$& and conferences that stink.

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  9. Down Island Way
    May 6, 2020 at 6:22 PM

    Using the potential for a shortened season 2020 (?) I’m $melling a pu$h for cfp expan$ion…. (mickey, other $maller conference$)

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  10. Doug
    May 6, 2020 at 10:58 PM

    Those stats don’t quite tell the whole story. One of the conferences with a 9-game league schedule stupidly forces its top two teams to play a title game after having already played every other conference member, and another is…well, the Pac-12.

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  11. CB
    May 7, 2020 at 1:12 AM

    So three SEC teams along with undefeated FSU and Clemson? I don’t think the 9th game is really the problem for the other conferences.

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  12. Mayor
    May 7, 2020 at 10:38 AM

    The winner of the SEC East and the winner or the SEC West already play a 9 game conference schedule—8 regular season conference games plus the SECCG.

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