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Title: Alabama Football: When SEC goes to nine games, top games will be lost Post by: ricky023 on June 03, 2023, 02:55:46 PM https://bamahammer.com/2023/06/03/alabama-football-sec-nine-games-games-lost/
I wonder others think about a 9 game schedule. I think that soon it would ruin the games we have now that really pump up a Saturday afternoon. Like Tenn, or possibly auburn moving around on the schedule. RTR! Title: Re: Alabama Football: When SEC goes to nine games, top games will be lost Post by: McBaman on June 13, 2023, 09:36:53 AM A fact of life: Time passes; things change. SEC will have more members than ever and will have to figure out what makes sense for the conf as a whole. I think it's inevitable that some rivalry games like Bama-Tenn will not be played each year. But to me, Bama-UTX is just as big a game, so I'm OK with not playing Tenn every year.
I think SEC will try to keep in-state rivalry games as the last games of the season. That works when both teams are SEC members like Bama-Barn, MSU-Ole Miss, and even aTm-UTX if that restarts (which I hope it will.) But for rivalries where the "other" team is non-conf, like UGA-Ga Tech or USC-Clemson, those games may have to move away from end-of-season. That's the price of expansion. There probably will be fewer out-of-conf Power 5 games like Bama-Wisc, but those will be replaced by more playoff games of the same caliber. (This will make the season longer & harder on the players.) Overall, I think all this will be exciting. Different, but exciting. Just MHO. Title: Re: Alabama Football: When SEC goes to nine games, top games will be lost Post by: ricky023 on June 13, 2023, 10:09:59 AM A fact of life: Time passes; things change. SEC will have more members than ever and will have to figure out what makes sense for the conf as a whole. I think it's inevitable that some rivalry games like Bama-Tenn will not be played each year. But to me, Bama-UTX is just as big a game, so I'm OK with not playing Tenn every year. I think SEC will try to keep in-state rivalry games as the last games of the season. That works when both teams are SEC members like Bama-Barn, MSU-Ole Miss, and even aTm-UTX if that restarts (which I hope it will.) But for rivalries where the "other" team is non-conf, like UGA-Ga Tech or USC-Clemson, those games may have to move away from end-of-season. That's the price of expansion. There probably will be fewer out-of-conf Power 5 games like Bama-Wisc, but those will be replaced by more playoff games of the same caliber. (This will make the season longer & harder on the players.) Overall, I think all this will be exciting. Different, but exciting. Just MHO. #+ #+ #+ I have to give you an attaboy for this opinion. I agree and well said. I would like to see Alabama vs Georgia every year. RTR! Title: Re: Alabama Football: When SEC goes to nine games, top games will be lost Post by: pmull on June 13, 2023, 03:11:29 PM A fact of life: Time passes; things change. SEC will have more members than ever and will have to figure out what makes sense for the conf as a whole. I think it's inevitable that some rivalry games like Bama-Tenn will not be played each year. But to me, Bama-UTX is just as big a game, so I'm OK with not playing Tenn every year. I think SEC will try to keep in-state rivalry games as the last games of the season. That works when both teams are SEC members like Bama-Barn, MSU-Ole Miss, and even aTm-UTX if that restarts (which I hope it will.) But for rivalries where the "other" team is non-conf, like UGA-Ga Tech or USC-Clemson, those games may have to move away from end-of-season. That's the price of expansion. There probably will be fewer out-of-conf Power 5 games like Bama-Wisc, but those will be replaced by more playoff games of the same caliber. (This will make the season longer & harder on the players.) Overall, I think all this will be exciting. Different, but exciting. Just MHO. Beginning in 2025 Bama will play two Power 5 opponents in addition to the SEC schedule. https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2023/6/13/23726356/alabama-crimson-tide-football-to-play-ten-power-games-2025-future-schedules-revenge Title: Re: Alabama Football: When SEC goes to nine games, top games will be lost Post by: ricky023 on June 13, 2023, 03:42:39 PM A fact of life: Time passes; things change. SEC will have more members than ever and will have to figure out what makes sense for the conf as a whole. I think it's inevitable that some rivalry games like Bama-Tenn will not be played each year. But to me, Bama-UTX is just as big a game, so I'm OK with not playing Tenn every year. I think SEC will try to keep in-state rivalry games as the last games of the season. That works when both teams are SEC members like Bama-Barn, MSU-Ole Miss, and even aTm-UTX if that restarts (which I hope it will.) But for rivalries where the "other" team is non-conf, like UGA-Ga Tech or USC-Clemson, those games may have to move away from end-of-season. That's the price of expansion. There probably will be fewer out-of-conf Power 5 games like Bama-Wisc, but those will be replaced by more playoff games of the same caliber. (This will make the season longer & harder on the players.) Overall, I think all this will be exciting. Different, but exciting. Just MHO. Beginning in 2025 Bama will play two Power 5 opponents in addition to the SEC schedule. https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2023/6/13/23726356/alabama-crimson-tide-football-to-play-ten-power-games-2025-future-schedules-revenge So this will be 11 power 5 opponents. Makes for a hefty schedule. RTR! Title: Re: Alabama Football: When SEC goes to nine games, top games will be lost Post by: McBaman on June 13, 2023, 04:40:27 PM A fact of life: Time passes; things change. SEC will have more members than ever and will have to figure out what makes sense for the conf as a whole. I think it's inevitable that some rivalry games like Bama-Tenn will not be played each year. But to me, Bama-UTX is just as big a game, so I'm OK with not playing Tenn every year. I think SEC will try to keep in-state rivalry games as the last games of the season. That works when both teams are SEC members like Bama-Barn, MSU-Ole Miss, and even aTm-UTX if that restarts (which I hope it will.) But for rivalries where the "other" team is non-conf, like UGA-Ga Tech or USC-Clemson, those games may have to move away from end-of-season. That's the price of expansion. There probably will be fewer out-of-conf Power 5 games like Bama-Wisc, but those will be replaced by more playoff games of the same caliber. (This will make the season longer & harder on the players.) Overall, I think all this will be exciting. Different, but exciting. Just MHO. Beginning in 2025 Bama will play two Power 5 opponents in addition to the SEC schedule. https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2023/6/13/23726356/alabama-crimson-tide-football-to-play-ten-power-games-2025-future-schedules-revenge Point noted pmull. But I just wonder if this will hold as it. I think all these games were scheduled before the number of playoff games were expanded, and before SEC started talking about 9-comf games per year. We could end up playing some of these OOC teams twice in a season. (Of course we could end up playing some SEC teams twice in a season. That's happened before.) Much to consider.... |