If the SEC picks up two teams, how does that affect scheduling?

[codeDawg]

Do we just drop an out-of-conference game each year? Who pays the guarantees on those that we have to drop? I doubt adding one more team to the division will cause us to split into four divisions.

Playing A&M every year does not help us get to bowl games.

 

[patdog]

could come back to bite us in the ***. I doubt the SEC goes to a 9-game schedule though. Everybody realizes that all that does is give you fewer bowl-eligible teams at the end of the season. Pretty sure we'd stay at 8 games, with each team playing the other 6 in its division, 1 permanent from the other division, and rotate through the other 6 in the other division. Unless Bama and Tennessee somehow wound up in the same division, in which case there'd be no need for a permanent opponent in the other division and you'd rotate 2 of the 7 teams in the other division.

 

[clintstoned]

I don't think it will be that major a problem, but because everyone is going to be in the same boat with such a radical shift in the alignment of the conferences. Not to say it won't be a headache, but I think most schools will be able to find that team an acceptable teams to play.

 

[rem101]

Didn't they say the Big 12 will actually exist at least 2 more years? I would think that would give us some time to play out the games we have in the next couple years and come up with some solution for the ones 3 and 4 years out.