I'm not even sure what the gripe is this time. Rivals being In conference but out of state ? Rivals being in conference and in state ? Rivals being out of conference and in state ? When a perceived good ooc game is scheduled and when a cupcake is ?
Sounds like some need to get up with their schools and conference scheduling department. Change it up to be competitive , because what they are doing does not seem to be working.
Of course in the end, you have to beat the opponent in front of you.
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Nothing wrong with our scheduling.
The sec is just playing the system that was made to benefit them. The conferences are getting too big.
You don't play all the teams in your conference each year and soon it's going to be you don't play some teams more than once a decade. Each division perennially only has a couple of good teams and the rest are average or worse. Then you only have to play the tough team from the other division once every what 6-8 years, add in 3 and sometimes 4 FCS schools makes for a pretty unchallenging schedule.
This is one reason I would like to see the Big 12 expand back to 12. If the Big 10 goes to 16 or more as is expected and the sec goes to 16, then the Big 12 will be at a disadvantage schedule wise remaining at 10. At 10 we are going to keep pounding each other and have a couple of teams with 3-4 losses that can't rise in the polls because we keep knocking each other down. Splitting into divisions will guarantee a softer schedule that like the sec allows you to keep multiple teams around the top 5 and in contention for multiple spots in the big money games.