(12-05-2017 07:57 AM)Gamecock Wrote:  

(12-04-2017 05:16 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  Long been a proponent of this idea

I would do it like this:

9 game schedule

- 4 permanent rival games

- 5 rotating home and home with everyone else

- Best two records meet in Atlanta

So for example, A&M might have Arkansas, Missouri, LSU and Ole Miss as permanent every year rivals

The big advantage is that every student and player who completes a 4 year term at their school gets to see/play every opponent in their conference at their stadium and can go to an away game at every opponent venue in their conference. You never go longer than 2 years without playing someone

That way you have full conference cohesion even at 14 members

I did some playing around with the numbers and I think we would really have to go to a nine game schedule with this model. With 3+5 it is impossible to rotate home and away every time.

Take SC for example:

2018 - @UF, UGA, @Vandy
Auburn, @Bama, Missouri, @Ole Miss, Miss St
2019- UF, @UGA, Vandy
@Arky, TAMU, @UK, LSU, @UT

Looks fine right? However when you get to 2020

2020 - @UF, UGA, @Vandy
@Auburn, Bama, @Missouri, Ole Miss, @Miss St

You see the problem, it quickly becomes 3 home/5 road or vice verse.

The only solution is to either go 4 permanent 4 rotating, which doesn’t let you play everyone in two years and creates a weird rotation, or you have to go unbalanced and go to an uneven home/away every year