Thunder & Lightning: Set Your Calendar For Mississippi State’s Next Four SEC Schedules

[Brian Hadad]

Mississippi State knows where they will be playing SEC football all the way through 2029, and for the first time in a long time, the Southeastern Conference feels like an actual conference again. Brian Hadad and Robbie Faulk discuss the new nine game look and what decisions Zac Selmon will need to make for the future of non-conference scheduling.

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[leeinator]

I think it's time for the SEC and NCAA to add a 13th game. Keeping 4 OOC teams is very important to me. Either add one at the end of spring practice, or begin one week earlier in August, or one week later in the schedule. I think we have 2 open weekends.....could reduce it to one and add the game there. Plenty of places to do so and the universities could use the extra income in a big way. If you say August is too hot, then require all early games to be played at 7pm or later. I would like to see the OOC games progress in order of difficulty to look something like this............

First Game.......SWAC Team
2nd Game........Sunbelt, CUSA, or MAC team
3rd Game.........Mid Major (AAC/MWC) team like Memphis, Tulane, USF, UCF, UTEP. Utah St, etc.
4th Game..........P4 game
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