2021 other games

[sys]

iowa doesn't seem to have a very good plan for scoring points.

[chum1]

iowa doesn't seem to have a very good plan for scoring points.

Lol. I think you unknowingly said a mouthful there.

[Cire]

Iowa offense is just painful


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[Winters]

iowa doesn't seem to have a very good plan for scoring points.

[MakeItRain]

So weird.

When they brought Mizzou and a&m in if they put them both in the west they would have had to break up a rivalry and they didn't want to do that so they told Mizzou to play in the east or eff off. Actually a good move if you ask me. I'm guessing when OU and UT come in they'll go to pods and the Big8/SWC teams will make up one of the pods.

[Kid In the Hall]

If they do pods, they'll have to screw over somebody with respect to historical rivalries.

My best guess would be below. There are certain groupings that absolutely won't be split (Georgia/Florida, Alabama/Auburn, etc.). The schools that don't really have any true rivals - Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Vandy, South Carolina -  could be plug and play into any of the various pods.  Tennessee is a tricky one because the school has clout in the league, but they don't really have a true rival.

Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
Kentucky

Tennessee
Vandy
Missouri
Arkansas

Alabama
Auburn
Mississippi
Mississippi State

Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
LSU

[catastrophe]

Texas/Arkansas is a pretty deeply rooted rivalry so I’d think you could at least swap Ark for LSU

[MakeItRain]

I have
OU
UT
Ark
A&M

Mizzou
LSU
Miss
MSU

Bama
Auburn
Vandy
Tennessee

Kentucky
USCe
Georgia
Florida

This way only Mizzou loses a rival, Arkansas loses two, kinda is you count the Mizzou thing as a true rivalry, but Arkansas gains two rivalries older than the two contrived sec rivalries they have. More importantly Alabama gets to keep their two, which are the most important rivalries in the SEC.

[Kid In the Hall]

I have
OU
UT
Ark
A&M

Mizzou
LSU
Miss
MSU

Bama
Auburn
Vandy
Tennessee

Kentucky
USCe
Georgia
Florida

This way only Mizzou loses a rival, Arkansas loses two, kinda is you count the Mizzou thing as a true rivalry, but Arkansas gains two rivalries older than the two contrived sec rivalries they have. More importantly Alabama gets to keep their two, which are the most important rivalries in the SEC.

Yeah - this is definitely plausible too. For certain, if there's one school the league doesn't care about, it's Mizzou. I also don't think they'll care about where to plug in Vandy - it's not like Vandy-Tennesse is a rivaly. It'll be interesting to see if/how Texas A&M bitches about being in a pod with Texas. But, the SEC would just tell them to STFU - just like they did with admitting Texas.

[Trim]

When they brought Mizzou and a&m in if they put them both in the west they would have had to break up a rivalry and they didn't want to do that so they told Mizzou to play in the east or eff off. Actually a good move if you ask me. I'm guessing when OU and UT come in they'll go to pods and the Big8/SWC teams will make up one of the pods.

I know all that but it's still funny that an organization of educational institutions used geographic adjectives for their divisions and that's what the resulting map looks like.

Maybe they could've called them northeast and southwest divisions but the "north" part is probably intolerable for some.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

I have
OU
UT
Ark
A&M

Mizzou
LSU
Miss
MSU

Bama
Auburn
Vandy
Tennessee

Kentucky
USCe
Georgia
Florida

This way only Mizzou loses a rival, Arkansas loses two, kinda is you count the Mizzou thing as a true rivalry, but Arkansas gains two rivalries older than the two contrived sec rivalries they have. More importantly Alabama gets to keep their two, which are the most important rivalries in the SEC.

I guess it depends on what they value. If they value maximizing the number of teams that make the cfp then they need to keep with things like bama and Georgia never playing in the regular season. If they want to do it by rivals,

OU
UT
Arky
TAMU

Ole Miss
Miss St
Misc 1
Misc 2

Bama
Auburn
LSU
Misc 3

Florida
Georgia
Misc 4
Misc 5

The 5 leftover teams just plug in wherever, don’t really matter

[MakeItRain]

I can promise you that whatever the configuration is, it will involve Alabama playing Tennessee every year, so that probably puts them in the same pod.

https://www.si.com/college/alabama/bamacentral/to-alabama-football-the-third-saturday-in-october-hasnt-lost-its-luster-blackwell