UGA’s 2023 slate is the easiest I can remember us ever having (due to Oklahoma series being cancelled), but this is the comparison for the past 5 years. UGA: 3, 8, 4, 1, & 1 Auburn: 1, 7, 6, 11, & 5
Regular season. UGA has had a pretty strong out of conference schedule under Kirby. The East has been average at best, but the strength of schedule has been strong…except for ‘23.
Idk, the ranking you're using lists UGA opponents this year with 30 more games played than Auburn. Might include playoffs
Despite the misgivings I will welcome Texas to the SEC for the simple reason they made our 1996 national championship possible. Will never forget all week leading up my dad going all in and saying they'd beat the Husks in the inagural Big 12 title game (21 point underdogs), a 7 year old jgator and him were doing the Hook'em Horns all week. According to Wuerfful he and Spurrier were headed back to their hotel rooms after film review (SEC title game was at night back then) and got off the elevator right when Texas right hit the roll left play on 4th down, Spurrier was pissed about everyone going crazy until he learned what happened. Apologies to fellow SEC 90s nostalgia fan Owsley (yall have got plenty of revenge) among others for the SEC title game but those were the damn glory days as a kid.
Cover 3 did an impromptu SEC schedule with Texas and OU. Pretty good listen for off season content. Alabama -Auburn, Tenn, LSU Arkansas - LSU, Texas, Missouri Auburn - Bama UGA, Miss St Florida - Georgia S Car, Kentucky Georgia - Florida, Auburn, S Carolina Kentucky - Tenn Vandy Florida LSU - Arkansas Ole Miss, Alabama Miss St - Ole Miss, Auburn, aTm Missouri - Oklahoma, S Carolina, Arkansas OU - Texas Missouri, aTm Ole Miss - Miss St, LSU, Vandy S Carolina - Georgia, Florida, Mizzou Tennessee - Alabama, Kentucky, Vandy Texas - aTm, Oklahoma, Arkansas aTm - Texas, Oklahoma, Miss St Vandy- Tennessee, Kentucky Ole Miss
Not everyone would be happy, but I'd assume Florida fans wouldn't like this. Everyone else seems pretty straight forward
It's fine. UGA is really our main in conference rival. We'd play all of our non-permanent opponents evey other year anyway, so I'm not going to get too hung up on the other 2 permanent opponents.
No Kentucky - Tennessee so this list has a zero percent chance. The Arkansas game is like 6th for LSU. They will want MSU, Auburn, Florida or A&M over it. And Arky and A&M will want each other( I mean they were both laying a 10 year series before A&M even joined the sec).
Yes, I agree. That is probably Miss St number 2 overall game. Played 105 times, closest two campuses in the SEC and Miss St will want that guaranteed sellout every other year
I know in terms of tradition, we have one of the lowest claims, but I want to keep LSU. Obviously UGA. UTenn seems the next most probable. If we’re not getting LSU, I don’t care who the third option is.
I don’t see how UT/Florida can be permanent. Though they’d be 4th on the list. Kentucky won’t give up the Tennessee game, and Tennessee has to take Vandy and Alabama.
We've played them more than anybody. It is more a rivalry from Kentucky's perspective. Going to have to bring back the beer barrel though
Lol @ bending to the Tennessee/Kentucky game. No one outside of the conference even knows that’s a rivalry. No one outside of those two states ever tunes in for that game.
Ole Miss is the only "must have". I think Miss St will probably happen just due to geography and lack of multiple major rivals for either of us. I think Arkansas or A&M are more likely than Bama or Auburn, especially since the latter already have each other plus a major East rival. I assume the conference will want to balance their schedules.
The ideal way to schedule SEC/college games in general is that you have 10 in conference and 2 out of conference games. 5 home and 5 away. With one fixed SEC opponent. The rest are decided by a World Cup/Champions league style draw, where certain teams are ineligible if you've drawn them three years in a row. Do this two years in advance in late February. So we'd be plucking names out of a bowl for the 2024 season in a couple of weeks. Make a rule that each P5 team has to schedule another P5 for the one other 2 games 3/4 years. I understand this will never happen. But it'd fucking rock.