Question for those criticizing the SEC for the 8-game schedule

TaikoTiger said:
Honestly I'm surprise that the other conferences haven't caught on and go in with 8 conf. games.
In a dream world, I would have everyone at 8 conf. games and 2-3 mandatory P5 OOC opponents.
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I always argued that on the old Hoop ... if you don't like the SEC/ACC playing 8 games, you can do the same thing.
 
Thiefery said:
i don't care, play 9 conf games you cowards (although tbf, UGA wanted 9.. pussy schools like bama, uk, vandy, sce, etc want only 8)
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South Carolina plays Clemson every.single.year. We're already playing the equivalent of 9 conference games.

Most years, we're also playing another ACC school such as UNC or NC State.

South Carolina should never, ever have to apologize for its OOC schedule.
 
Hu War Yu said:
South Carolina plays Clemson every.single.year. We're already playing the equivalent of 9 conference games.

Most years, we're also playing another ACC school such as UNC or NC State.

South Carolina should never, ever have to apologize for its OOC schedule.
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Same with Florida ... all those years having to play FSU when they were on top. UGA is lucky ... GaTech blows.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Same with Florida ... all those years having to play FSU when they were on top. UGA is lucky ... GaTech blows.
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most of the old SEC East teams have an end-of-year rivalry game with an ACC team. No, they're not all world-beaters but they ARE P5 opponents.

Things are tough enough as a Gamecock. Why would we want to make it even harder? Now, I'll ridicule Bama for being hesitant to go to 9. There's a good chance their 9th game in any given year is against a Kentucky, Missouri, Vandy, or Mississippi State. Not a heavy lift for them.
 
Hu War Yu said:
most of the old SEC East teams have an end-of-year rivalry game with an ACC team. No, they're not all world-beaters but they ARE P5 opponents.

Things are tough enough as a Gamecock. Why would we want to make it even harder? Now, I'll ridicule Bama for being hesitant to go to 9. There's a good chance their 9th game in any given year is against a Kentucky, Missouri, Vandy, or Mississippi State. Not a heavy lift for them.
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Actually, it appears they will get the most difficult permanent 3 with Auburn, UTjr, and LSU.

Never mind they have played them for decades and in the last 20 years they are something like 50-10 against them.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
And, you saw me in two posts now say that I mistakenly looked at UAB this year and said that was a top G5, which it is. I will always admit when I made a mistake, in this case misreading the schedule.

As for what you did or didn't way, when you attack another school for their schedule, your sorry ass schedule is fair game.
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Jesus Christ. Dumbass. I didn’t attack the schedule. Only that neither umass and Tenn tech aren’t good teams. Shit, UAB is a slightly above average G5 team. So let’s simmer down there too.
 
RubinRock said:
Jesus Christ. Dumbass. I didn’t attack the schedule. Only that neither umass and Tenn tech aren’t good teams. Shit, UAB is a slightly above average G5 team. So let’s simmer down there too.
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You mad? You seem mad.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
And, you saw me in two posts now say that I mistakenly looked at UAB this year and said that was a top G5, which it is. I will always admit when I made a mistake, in this case misreading the schedule.

As for what you did or didn't way, when you attack another school for their schedule, your sorry ass schedule is fair game.
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7-6 UAB top G5 team. ignoring the 21 G5 teams with better records and 9 with same number of wins.
 
Hu War Yu said:
South Carolina plays Clemson every.single.year. We're already playing the equivalent of 9 conference games.

Most years, we're also playing another ACC school such as UNC or NC State.

South Carolina should never, ever have to apologize for its OOC schedule.
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sexy nicole scherzinger GIF
 
Most SEC teams aren't playing a team the caliber of Clemson ooc though

So yesion this small sample the schedule is fine. Better than fine

But that's not the majority of SEC schedules

Most SEC teams are playing 4 eminently winnable OOC games.
 
rmilia1 said:
Most SEC teams aren't playing a team the caliber of Clemson ooc though

So yesion this small sample the schedule is fine. Better than fine

But that's not the majority of SEC schedules

Most SEC teams are playing 4 eminently winnable OOC games.
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That isn't really true though. Just for this upcoming year you have:

Florida playing Utah and FSU. Tennessee playing UVA and UTSA. Kentucky playing UL. Missouri playing Kansas State. South Carolina playing UNC and Clemson. Vandy playing Wake Forest. UGA playing GT and was supposed to play OU until the SEC made them cancel the series. In the west Bama is playing Texas, Arkansas is playing BYU, Auburn is playing Cal, LSU is playing FSU, Miss St is playing Arizona, Ole Miss is playing Tulane and GT and A&M is playing Miami. Every team has at least one P5 team, some two and some against good G5 teams. Nothing wrong with these schedules.
 
ericd7633 said:
That isn't really true though. Just for this upcoming year you have:

Florida playing Utah and FSU. Tennessee playing UVA and UTSA. Kentucky playing UL. Missouri playing Kansas State. South Carolina playing UNC and Clemson. Vandy playing Wake Forest. UGA playing GT and was supposed to play OU until the SEC made them cancel the series. In the west Bama is playing Texas, Arkansas is playing BYU, Auburn is playing Cal, LSU is playing FSU, Miss St is playing Arizona, Ole Miss is playing Tulane and GT and A&M is playing Miami. Every team has at least one P5 team, some two and some against good G5 teams. Nothing wrong with these schedules.
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Yep, those are as good as the vast majority of P5 OOC schedules…if not better. What I’d like to see is 11 out of 12 being against other P5s or upper G5s. Let them have one “gimme”. It would cost my guys some good paydays but that’ll our problem. And O know it won’t happen because money/home games blah, blah, blah. But it would give the committee more cross conference data points and fans better games. jmo
 
ericd7633 said:
That isn't really true though. Just for this upcoming year you have:

Florida playing Utah and FSU. Tennessee playing UVA and UTSA. Kentucky playing UL. Missouri playing Kansas State. South Carolina playing UNC and Clemson. Vandy playing Wake Forest. UGA playing GT and was supposed to play OU until the SEC made them cancel the series. In the west Bama is playing Texas, Arkansas is playing BYU, Auburn is playing Cal, LSU is playing FSU, Miss St is playing Arizona, Ole Miss is playing Tulane and GT and A&M is playing Miami. Every team has at least one P5 team, some two and some against good G5 teams. Nothing wrong with these schedules.
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Sure. I didnt say cupcakes though. I said very winnable. The SEC teams will likely be favored in what 80% of those ganes ? You just don't really see too many SEC teams schedule up unless it's a long term rivalry like SC vs Clemson

. Like Kentucky isn't going to play Michigan like Wisky played LSU/Bama. Or Mizzou isn't scheduling Oklahoma like Nebraska did etc


There's almost none of that with SEC schools. They're rarely playing an OOC game they aren't either supposed to win or at least have a good shot to win
 
rmilia1 said:
Sure. I didnt say cupcakes though. I said very winnable. The SEC teams will likely be favored in what 80% of those ganes ? You just don't really see too many SEC teams schedule up unless it's a long term rivalry like SC vs Clemson

. Like Kentucky isn't going to play Michigan like Wisky played LSU/Bama. Or Mizzou isn't scheduling Oklahoma like Nebraska did etc


There's almost none of that with SEC schools. They're rarely playing an OOC game they aren't either supposed to win or at least have a good shot to win
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Meh, I'm all for shitting on the SEC, but this just isn't completely true. Just last season, we had
Utah-Florida (Utah was favored on the road)
Oregon-UGA (when scheduled was probably close to a toss up or slight edge to Georgia)
FSU - LSU (FSU won)
Alabama - Texas (who can bama actually schedule that they aren't favored in)
Tennessee - Pitt (Tennessee was favored in this but Pitt won the year before)
Penn St - Auburn (Penn St killed them)
A&M - Miami (toss up)
 
jon1tanman said:
This is why people have a problem with the SEC 8 game conference schedule.

Don't look now, but it's 'Cupcake Week' in the SEC
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Who cares when you play your cupcakes? If the conferences think there is an advantage, they can change it. All this shows is that the SEC is smart.

We had tons of arguments about this back in the day on the old Hoop. To me, it all boiled down to do you want a longer pre-season, or do you want an 11th-week bye week.

Historically the SEC started more SEC games earlier than the other conferences. TV inventory mandates some B1G games in the first 4 weeks, so most conferences start IC games earlier. But the SEC inherently has more IC games earlier, so that they have room for the late-season OOC games - the 11th-week byes and the 12th-week rivalry games against the ACC. It also spreads out the IC inventory over all 12 weeks.
 
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