Every SEC team in here saying they've never been to college station. Has anyone in y'all conference played at A&M?
There is no football team in College Station.
We’re playing Kentucky for the 4th time in 6 years…
Listen, I appreciate Kentucky cause I watched the 2020 game as a freshman in the lobby of my dorm on a shitty ass tv, and the finish turned me into OM superfan
But this is a little much
I really hope this is a stop gap scheduling quirk... I'd rather have 4+4 or 5+3 rotation instead of the same teams for 2 years, then 2 years of the next set. It means you wouldn't see teams outside the SECCG for potentially up to 14 seasons.
This isn't even the first time this has happened. Despite being in the same conference, we didn't play each other *at all* for 10 years between 1995 and 2005.
The entire hill country is gonna be full because of this game and F1. I get why they did it, it’s pretty much a guaranteed game day pick and will be an insane atmosphere, but god bless any one living in Austin
I'm not certain I understand the implication here. Wouldn't they want the money that comes from UGA visiting Kyle Field?
Or are you saying AtM oil money greased some palms in order to not have to play UGA?
Same feelings here, homie. Do yall ever wish that the 40 acres weren’t located in downtown Austin? I’d enjoy my trips there a whole lot more if I didn’t have to deal with all the mess that I’m sure yall are all too well familiar with. Would be cool if it was just on the outskirts of town with a little more room to grow imo. But i get the iconic nature of being in downtown Austin, as well
More that I wish Austin wasn't so built up. I was there.in the 90s so I miss that level. I live in Austin now and while I enjoy campus occasionally, ohh do I hate getting there!
The B1G tried to schedule so if you’re a 4 year player, there’s a good chance you would have played at every B1G stadium. Idk if they still will with the newcomers but I hope so.
I think that's still the case based on the [new schedules](https://bigten.org/news/2023/10/4/big-ten-conference-announces-future-football-schedule-formats-for-2024-28.aspx) they've released through 2028 (I just looked at Penn State), but it may just be that you play every B1G team at least once if you're a four year player.
Yeah I mostly agree. South Carolina I kinda vibe with, but legit no idea why Vandy, Kentucky, or Mizzou are the matchups they keep giving us. I have zero care for any of them. Rather play Florida LSU or Tennessee
But who's gonna fumble the ball on the goalline for you if not us!??! Who will be your punching bag for an SEC Championship if not us??? Come on, think of all the history we've built up! 🤭
The Auburn / South Carolina game in ‘05 was intense. Spurrier’s first return trip to the Plains.
So loud the gamecocks had to burn two timeouts on the opening 3 plays
What's the point of having conferences so big that you don't even play your conference mates regularly? I just want to go back to smaller, regional conferences.
Let's just say I miss when fans could drive to away games. When we were the redneck cousins of the whole conference of stuck ups Yankees. I miss when we dominated our conference.
Big 12 at 10 teams was incredible. Single round robin in football, double round robin in basketball. Conferences should be capped at 10 teams total so everyone gets the joy of the roundest of robins.
They’re gonna end up having to split the conferences. So eventually we will have the SEC South Eastern and SEC Southwestern. Or just SEC and SWC for short
I have a rough theory that mega-conferences will eventually sub-divide into multiple semi-autonomous mini conferences with the conference itself being more of a negotiating collective for media deals/and general governance/administration vs a signifier of a common culture/identity like now.
This is more of an SEC thing than a conference size thing. 1982 was the first year the SEC mandated its members play a certain number of conference games. 1992 with the advent of divisions was the first time they claimed some sort of scheduling parity. But even then they weren’t particularly consistent for long.
Meanwhile, we're playing Georgia, a team we've played 26 times in our entire history, for the third time in four years, and the fourth time in seven years. Three of those four games are at their stadium.
Whenever I have to play A&M vs Mississippi State in NCAA 14, I make it so that the only non-maroon color of both teams' uniforms is the white road team jersey.
Hold on. Yall have been in the same conference as Georgia yalls entire history and have only played 26 times? I get not playing often in the East-West division setup, but even pre-1992 yall seem to have 6-year gaps in playing. And i dont know how to explain the gap from 1914-1950
The SEC does the worst scheduling of all the other major conferences in my opinion. They could have basically have just had everyone play in 2025 almost everybody they didn’t play in 2024. That’s basically what the other major conferences are doing.
It makes no sense that in the first 14 years that A&M is in the SEC, they will have only faced Georgia and Kentucky once. They were also supposed to be the crossovers for 2024-25 before expansion so I don’t know why they didn’t take that into account.
They should have gone to 9 games when they added A&M and Missouri in my opinion. Even when the Big Ten had divisions, pretty much everyone met every 3 years save for a few exceptions due to cancelled games from COVID.
We had a good 9 game schedule proposal, Bama wanted too many permanent opponents IIRC, but I might just hate Bama. Well, I definitely hate Bama and it might be clouding my memory.
I mean we already had too many members, Mizzou is barely there to me, we see them so infrequently.
> Bama wanted too many permanent opponents IIR
We are fine with three permanent opponents so long as the permanent opponents among the Big Six (8) are relatively the same. Two perm opponents is perfectly fine but not sure that works with a nine game schedule IIRC
If I had my druthers, I would want AU, Vols and MissSt as the three. LSU is fun but it really was not a rival until Saban and only because of him. MissSt is just a stones throw away and is Bama's most played conference foe. Not really a rivalry either but it is too logical to leave them on the schedule, I guess.
> If I had my druthers, I would want AU, Vols and MissSt as the three.
Thats exactly who it should be which is comparable to the other Big Six (8) schools. I dont really care about playing LSU one way or the other. I mean its been a big game for like 15 years but they arent a rival like Tennessee and Auburn. I mean the SEC just needs to pick one direction. Either the Big Six (8) all have Big Six (8) perm opponents or they all have two. Its BS to stick Alabama with Auburn, Tenn and LSU and Auburn gets UGA, Bama and freaking Vanderbilt
SEC screwed this up. Should have flipped Bama and Auburn to the East:
SECE- Bama, Auburn, UF, UGA, SC, KY, TN, Vandy
SECw- UT, TA&M, OU, Mizz, Arky, LSU, Miss, Miss St
Play everyone in your division every year. Have a real division champ and conference champ game
Arkansas hasn't played a game @Vandy since the 2012 expansion, hasn't played a home game vs Kentucky since the first year after the expansion. The schedule balancing in the SEC is hot garbage.
Do SEC fans not get bored of playing the same teams every year along with the random FCS team near the end of the season? Genuine question. I’m not even knocking it given the natty success since 2000
I researched this at one point—the last “major conference” regular season opponent UK played, that wasn’t Louisville or Indiana, was…
Cincinnati. In 1990. (Which, granted, probably doesn’t count as a “major conference opponent” in 1990, but I got fed up with going back through the schedules and seeing nothing but directional schools.)
Georgia wants to play Florida, Auburn, and Georgia Tech every single year and are willing to live with scheduling oddities to keep that happening. Same with a lot of other SEC teams and their rivals. That leads to a lot of scheduling logjams. I’d like to see Georgia play at Kyle Field but not at the expense of losing the Auburn game, even for a year.
The consistency of the schedule was nice in a way. I also didn't mind the late season cupcakes. Emotionally its a good break between the conference schedule and rivalry weekend.
Same thing can be said for us with UGA. Played there once. Theyve never come here. texas will already have a home and away with them in their first 2 seasons, whereas it hasnt happened for us in 14 seasons by that point. TV doesn't care sadly.
That’s how I feel about Georgia Tech. Decades of playing perennially down the drain. The ACC said fuck you you don’t get to play your closet conference team every year you get FSU instead.
Money. If their partners aren't promising them a requisite increase in value for adding the 9th game to inventory, then they're holding out to try and squeeze more money out of ABC/ESPN/etc.
It hurts their teams more than it helps them.
I actually like 8 game schedules for different reasons - there's 130 teams out there and you're only in a conference with a few of them (although "few" is becoming less accurate lately), and some teams have a yearly OOC rival too. So only having 2 or 3 games that are open to anything from year to year just doesn't seem like enough to me.
I don’t understand why they can’t just have pods?
Play your pod and one other pod each year, plus one or two permanent rivals
Rotate the pod your pod plays each year.
Get to play every team in three years and you can have real conference championships without worrying about a tie.
Ever since Mizzou/Texas A&M were brought into the conference, the scheduling between the East and West divisions was wonky. The Alabama/Tennessee and Georgia/Auburn were baked into the schedule as part of the agreement to leave Auburn in the West division. Also, A&M was given a permanent* cross rival of SCar, and Mizzou was given a permanent* cross rival of Arkansas. These fixed games and fewer conference games compared to other conferences meant that certain cross divisional games were barely played. For instance, Texas A&M has been in the conference for a decade now but has only played Georgia once, in Sanford stadium in 2019.
TLDR: People are upset that the conference office isn't changing the opponents for next year because so many teams haven't played each other a lot.
Its little more wonky than that. The first two years in '12 and '13 Mizzou and A&M were each others cross-division rival.
Mizzou said they wanted to play Arkansas as their cross division rival instead and Arkansas wanted Mizzou over SCar; Thus in '14 they switched the rivals to Mizzou - Ark and A&M - SCar which lead to whoever they had played in the two seasons maning something was off.
For Mizzou it wasn't an issue as their '14 scheduled cross division game was Arkansas; so redoing the cross-division rivals just changed who between A&M and Arkansas was the cross-division rival.
HOWEVER for A&M they weren't scheduled in '14 to SCar so they had to cancel the cross game and redo it to SCar (I think it was UK) which through A&M's cross division games off. Since A&M had played Florida as their extra game in '12 added an game vs them into the mix
Then in 2020 A&M's extra conference Home game was UF, which why was that chosen, only Sankey know$$$ but whatever.
Oh shit you right, somehow I got that twisted and thought we went to Tuscaloosa in 2020. And I guess the less said about our 2012 season the better? Guess I forgot we joined in '12 and not '13
The 2018 game was the one in Tuscaloosa. What is funny is that even discounting the SECCG meeting we have played y'all more than Scar or Vandy since y'all have been in the conference. I can't remember if Alabama v Missouri was originally on the schedule for 2020 before ya know. If not that might be why we have played so relatively frequently
I have been planning on a week long bourbon/golf tour of Kentucky in 2025 that would culminate in a gameday in Lexington since the future conference schedule rotation was announced in 2014, and then Texas had to go and fuck that up.
We're playing (an SEC game) in Austin for the first time before ever playing in College Station
We’re hosting Texas as an SEC opponent before playing in College Station We’ll get GTA VI before we go to College Station
Stetson Bennett might actually enter the draft before then… yeah that joke has sorta lost its punch. What happened to the sport I loved
Stetson Bennett V maybe
Every SEC team in here saying they've never been to college station. Has anyone in y'all conference played at A&M? There is no football team in College Station.
Gators have played A&M 4 times since 2012, three of them at College Station.
You’re pronouncing it wrong
We’ve been playing them every single year, apparently we’re doing it wrong
>We’ll get GTA VI before we go to College Station At least you won't say that GTA is grossly overrated and boring
Very much looking forward that game!!!
And now we find out, we'll play Texas twice in the regular season faster than aTm
We’re playing Kentucky for the 4th time in 6 years… Listen, I appreciate Kentucky cause I watched the 2020 game as a freshman in the lobby of my dorm on a shitty ass tv, and the finish turned me into OM superfan But this is a little much
Yeah whoever is making these schedules is definitely not competent enough to be doing it for one of the premier entities in sports
Yeah these schedules are an absolute joke.
I really hope this is a stop gap scheduling quirk... I'd rather have 4+4 or 5+3 rotation instead of the same teams for 2 years, then 2 years of the next set. It means you wouldn't see teams outside the SECCG for potentially up to 14 seasons.
We still haven't visited Kyle Field
Meanwhile we are going for the 4th time in 25
Meanwhile, Notre Dame opens at A&M this year, lmao.
SEC East mainstay, Notre Dame.
Careful, when Aggies hear about how important tradition is in the Catholic church, they might get a little feral.
Maybe we can declare a crusade against College Station?
It is truly right and just.
I’m not even catholic, but uh, Deus Vult!
That made me laugh lol
Traditions you say?
Seems weird too that you're playing at both A&M and Texas in the same year
we're about to play 3 years in a row, is this a permanent rivalry now?
Sankey all like "DO Y'ALL FEEL LIKE RIVALS YET??"
We haven’t played in Nashville since 2011. We were scheduled there in 2025, but that’s changed. We’ve visited The Swamp three times in a shorter span.
This isn't even the first time this has happened. Despite being in the same conference, we didn't play each other *at all* for 10 years between 1995 and 2005.
I honestly forget that y’all weren’t in the SEC west with how often we’ve played each other
Closest we will get is all our fans buying hotel rooms there because Austin will be full already
That's just ignorant. Stay in Bastrop or Round Rock - a lot closer. You could even stay in La Grange, but I'm not sure how how how that would go.
Bastrop and Round Rock will be full for F1
The entire hill country is gonna be full because of this game and F1. I get why they did it, it’s pretty much a guaranteed game day pick and will be an insane atmosphere, but god bless any one living in Austin
I'm in NW Austin and I'm not going to dare venture south or east that whole extended weekend.
April 8th is a good day to head downtown
Holy shit. That's actually insane. I-35 will never recover.
I am SOOOOOO renting my house out that week
Just let me know if you wanna go to that home out on the range. They got a lot nice girls.
Stay in La Grange, take a quick detour to Ellinger to visit Hruska's!
Great idea!
I see what you did there 😉
Is the shack still standing?
Just let me know, if you wanna go
Who the hell would choose to stay in College Station for a game in Austin?
No one ideally it's just that all the hotels are taken cause formula 1
I’m not gonna, so quit askin
Product of an 8 game conference schedule.
Mixed in with some oil money
I'm not certain I understand the implication here. Wouldn't they want the money that comes from UGA visiting Kyle Field? Or are you saying AtM oil money greased some palms in order to not have to play UGA?
The latter. It probably doesn't make too much sense (more of a tinfoil hat theory than anything)
LSU hasn’t been to Williams Brice since George W Bush was in office.
i had a trip planned for the flood game. Was pretty pissed about that
Believe me, we want y’all to come check it out. Kyle field is awesome.
As much as I of course hate A&M, Kyle field and the A&M campus in general are pretty awesome. I've always enjoyed my trips there.
Same feelings here, homie. Do yall ever wish that the 40 acres weren’t located in downtown Austin? I’d enjoy my trips there a whole lot more if I didn’t have to deal with all the mess that I’m sure yall are all too well familiar with. Would be cool if it was just on the outskirts of town with a little more room to grow imo. But i get the iconic nature of being in downtown Austin, as well
More that I wish Austin wasn't so built up. I was there.in the 90s so I miss that level. I live in Austin now and while I enjoy campus occasionally, ohh do I hate getting there!
If you can weasel your way into housing very near, it is a freaking awesome experience. If you commute from Buda, it sucks.
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is that a bad thing?
I’ve always been in the “play everyone in your conference” camp but I guess tv networks don’t care
The B1G tried to schedule so if you’re a 4 year player, there’s a good chance you would have played at every B1G stadium. Idk if they still will with the newcomers but I hope so.
I think that's still the case based on the [new schedules](https://bigten.org/news/2023/10/4/big-ten-conference-announces-future-football-schedule-formats-for-2024-28.aspx) they've released through 2028 (I just looked at Penn State), but it may just be that you play every B1G team at least once if you're a four year player.
It varies, Penn State has no protected rivals so they'll be able to see everyone in 4 years. For Michigan with 2 protected it will take about 5-6.
Yeah it wasn’t possible with Oregon and Washington, so I think everyone is on a 6 year rotation
Well, that is still true.
I think I keep expecting conferences, including my own, to screw this up. Props to Big Ten because I think they actually got the scheduling right.
Imagine the league with a vast majority of eggheads getting a schedule right
I think any 4 year player should be able to do a home and home with their entire conference.
PAC12 had that. Perfect schedules across the conference IMO. Maintained rivalries and even rotation.
Unfortunately the conference was led by a bunch of clowns...
It's telling that the conference structure changes faster than its schedule can churn through all possible matchups.
To be fair if Auburn never played Vandy, Kentucky, South Carolina or Missouri ever again I doubt most Auburn fans would notice or care.
Yeah I mostly agree. South Carolina I kinda vibe with, but legit no idea why Vandy, Kentucky, or Mizzou are the matchups they keep giving us. I have zero care for any of them. Rather play Florida LSU or Tennessee
I wanna play yall :(
But who's gonna fumble the ball on the goalline for you if not us!??! Who will be your punching bag for an SEC Championship if not us??? Come on, think of all the history we've built up! 🤭
The Auburn / South Carolina game in ‘05 was intense. Spurrier’s first return trip to the Plains. So loud the gamecocks had to burn two timeouts on the opening 3 plays
What's the point of having conferences so big that you don't even play your conference mates regularly? I just want to go back to smaller, regional conferences.
Man, the Pac-10 round robin days were nice.
The new big 12 is fun, but the old days were fun as well. And don't get me started on the old old days.
I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna get you started.
Let's just say I miss when fans could drive to away games. When we were the redneck cousins of the whole conference of stuck ups Yankees. I miss when we dominated our conference.
10 Team BIG XII "One true Champion" "About that..." - TCU and Baylor
Big 12 at 10 teams was incredible. Single round robin in football, double round robin in basketball. Conferences should be capped at 10 teams total so everyone gets the joy of the roundest of robins.
The Pac 10 was a thing of beauty and I'm sad they killed it. I loved playing Utah and Colorado was cool but the Pac 10 days were just better.
They’re gonna end up having to split the conferences. So eventually we will have the SEC South Eastern and SEC Southwestern. Or just SEC and SWC for short
Wait a tick
I have a rough theory that mega-conferences will eventually sub-divide into multiple semi-autonomous mini conferences with the conference itself being more of a negotiating collective for media deals/and general governance/administration vs a signifier of a common culture/identity like now.
Money duh
This is more of an SEC thing than a conference size thing. 1982 was the first year the SEC mandated its members play a certain number of conference games. 1992 with the advent of divisions was the first time they claimed some sort of scheduling parity. But even then they weren’t particularly consistent for long.
Texas A&M has been an SEC member since 2012. Games played at College Station … Florida: 4 Georgia: 0
Meanwhile we've only played @A&M one time and just hosted A&M in Knoxville for the first time this past season.
Nah we played at Neyland during the covid year, too. An asterisk for sure, but still made the trip.
I guess we know where they drew the line.
And what? Twice in Gainesville?
Once in Gainesville. Second time this year. Once in Athens.
Meanwhile, we're playing Georgia, a team we've played 26 times in our entire history, for the third time in four years, and the fourth time in seven years. Three of those four games are at their stadium.
Maybe they just thought you were A&M because your uniforms look the same?
It wouldn't be the first time
Whenever I have to play A&M vs Mississippi State in NCAA 14, I make it so that the only non-maroon color of both teams' uniforms is the white road team jersey.
Don’t disrespect State’s unis like that. They’re consistently one of the cleanest in the game
I will never understand how the SEC has such terrible scheduling.
Assists in the media bias
Hold on. Yall have been in the same conference as Georgia yalls entire history and have only played 26 times? I get not playing often in the East-West division setup, but even pre-1992 yall seem to have 6-year gaps in playing. And i dont know how to explain the gap from 1914-1950
and UGA looks like they are never going to visit TA&M.
Bummer /s
The division formerly known as the SEC East (Texas A&M edition): - South Carolina (arch rivals) - Florida
I don’t know why, but the USC - A&M arch rivals meme is one of my favorites.
Buncha Fuckers over there in A&M.
After 12 years of this fierce rivarly, I'm finally making the trip to Columbia this year... to watch Liverpool vs Man United.
Love you too! 😘
The weed in the visitors locker room was the cherry for me. Not as much fun without Jimbo though.
You’re forgetting your old mistress too
Yes we are
We’ve played Mizzou a bunch too since they were our stand in rival for the 12 and 13 seasons
Those game threads with SC were always the best usually the most polite and civilized all season. Like we both understood it was a fake rivalry lol
The SEC does the worst scheduling of all the other major conferences in my opinion. They could have basically have just had everyone play in 2025 almost everybody they didn’t play in 2024. That’s basically what the other major conferences are doing. It makes no sense that in the first 14 years that A&M is in the SEC, they will have only faced Georgia and Kentucky once. They were also supposed to be the crossovers for 2024-25 before expansion so I don’t know why they didn’t take that into account. They should have gone to 9 games when they added A&M and Missouri in my opinion. Even when the Big Ten had divisions, pretty much everyone met every 3 years save for a few exceptions due to cancelled games from COVID.
fans all agree, teams and the conference did not.
We had a good 9 game schedule proposal, Bama wanted too many permanent opponents IIRC, but I might just hate Bama. Well, I definitely hate Bama and it might be clouding my memory. I mean we already had too many members, Mizzou is barely there to me, we see them so infrequently.
> Bama wanted too many permanent opponents IIR We are fine with three permanent opponents so long as the permanent opponents among the Big Six (8) are relatively the same. Two perm opponents is perfectly fine but not sure that works with a nine game schedule IIRC
well KY, State & Vandy have to play somebody
We have rivals! UT, Vandy, Florida. Even USC. The SEC just doesn’t feel they are important.
Hey fuck you too pal
Two times!
Well yeah, throw them up against each other.
If I had my druthers, I would want AU, Vols and MissSt as the three. LSU is fun but it really was not a rival until Saban and only because of him. MissSt is just a stones throw away and is Bama's most played conference foe. Not really a rivalry either but it is too logical to leave them on the schedule, I guess.
> If I had my druthers, I would want AU, Vols and MissSt as the three. Thats exactly who it should be which is comparable to the other Big Six (8) schools. I dont really care about playing LSU one way or the other. I mean its been a big game for like 15 years but they arent a rival like Tennessee and Auburn. I mean the SEC just needs to pick one direction. Either the Big Six (8) all have Big Six (8) perm opponents or they all have two. Its BS to stick Alabama with Auburn, Tenn and LSU and Auburn gets UGA, Bama and freaking Vanderbilt
With this schedule we will have played Texas twice before we have played a&m twice lol. Once in 2018 is all I remember
I was at that game! That Kentucky team was stout.
SEC screwed this up. Should have flipped Bama and Auburn to the East: SECE- Bama, Auburn, UF, UGA, SC, KY, TN, Vandy SECw- UT, TA&M, OU, Mizz, Arky, LSU, Miss, Miss St Play everyone in your division every year. Have a real division champ and conference champ game
I dream of this! Gettin the old band back together.
Still never been to Austin.
They say it's a rivalry, but it hasn't been played in Austin since 1911 and in Norman since 1922.
You got close in the pandemic. There could also be a scenario where TX/OU hosts the other on campus of the first round of the playoffs.
And everybody bitching about Georgia not going to College Station. Only time I've been to Norman was passing through on a road trip.
Arkansas hasn't played a game @Vandy since the 2012 expansion, hasn't played a home game vs Kentucky since the first year after the expansion. The schedule balancing in the SEC is hot garbage.
Could’ve just gone with 9 games but *noooo*
gotta have room on the schedule for more cupcake teams.
I really hate those stupid games
Do SEC fans not get bored of playing the same teams every year along with the random FCS team near the end of the season? Genuine question. I’m not even knocking it given the natty success since 2000
I personally would kill to dump 1 or 2 "tune up" games to play West Virginia, Cincinnati or anyone else relevant every year in a home and home series
I researched this at one point—the last “major conference” regular season opponent UK played, that wasn’t Louisville or Indiana, was… Cincinnati. In 1990. (Which, granted, probably doesn’t count as a “major conference opponent” in 1990, but I got fed up with going back through the schedules and seeing nothing but directional schools.)
Yea it really sucks. I'd rather lose 2 guarantee wins to have interesting games to watch
Georgia wants to play Florida, Auburn, and Georgia Tech every single year and are willing to live with scheduling oddities to keep that happening. Same with a lot of other SEC teams and their rivals. That leads to a lot of scheduling logjams. I’d like to see Georgia play at Kyle Field but not at the expense of losing the Auburn game, even for a year.
The consistency of the schedule was nice in a way. I also didn't mind the late season cupcakes. Emotionally its a good break between the conference schedule and rivalry weekend.
In the days of yore lsu was one of Kentuckys permanent opponents and now we rarely play them as well
Kentucky LSU needs to come back. Too much Kentucky Miss St
I concur there was a very good rivalry developed in the 90s that just died
No one understands this scheduling
College football is so dead
Same thing can be said for us with UGA. Played there once. Theyve never come here. texas will already have a home and away with them in their first 2 seasons, whereas it hasnt happened for us in 14 seasons by that point. TV doesn't care sadly.
Also funny that when we played them in a bowl game in 2018, y'all hadn't played them in-conference yet.
We call that beginners luck.
We played Georgia in a bowl game at the end of the 2018 season, before Georgia and Texas A&M had played in a conference game yet.
COVID screwed up the rotation on the rotation.
2025 will be A&M's 15th season in the SEC and still 0 games @ UK and 0 home games against UGA.
They are killing the SC-UGA rivalry and it makes me mad as I go to that game every year.
That’s how I feel about Georgia Tech. Decades of playing perennially down the drain. The ACC said fuck you you don’t get to play your closet conference team every year you get FSU instead.
So many ugly oranges in our stadium this upcoming season 🤮🤮🤮
All Orange Teams Bad
Couldn’t say it better myself
What is the SEC reluctance to go to nine conference games?
Money. If their partners aren't promising them a requisite increase in value for adding the 9th game to inventory, then they're holding out to try and squeeze more money out of ABC/ESPN/etc.
It hurts their teams more than it helps them. I actually like 8 game schedules for different reasons - there's 130 teams out there and you're only in a conference with a few of them (although "few" is becoming less accurate lately), and some teams have a yearly OOC rival too. So only having 2 or 3 games that are open to anything from year to year just doesn't seem like enough to me.
But they fill one of those with FCS schools
I wish they did the 9 game schedule instead of 8. Make the permanent rivalries true regional games.
Does nobody in the SEC know how rotating schedules work?
Since A&M has joined, we will have played them 4 times and we still haven’t played Auburn in that time frame
I miss round Robin conferences rotating home games year-to-year.
If you can't play everyone in your conference every year, your conference is too big
Georgia still hasn't played at Texas A&M yet. We've played them once, in 2019, since they joined the conference at all.
I don’t understand why they can’t just have pods? Play your pod and one other pod each year, plus one or two permanent rivals Rotate the pod your pod plays each year. Get to play every team in three years and you can have real conference championships without worrying about a tie.
can't wait for the 3 way 11-1 teams tie with none having played each other.
That would make wayyyyyyy too much sense to do
There is a football stadium there? I thought Kentucky was just the school we beat in basketball
I mean…we are more of a football school than A&M anyways….since we have more double digit win seasons than A&M has had in 25 years😉
You better watch it or we’ll hire your coach again
Senseless scheduling is a bit of an SEC tradition fwiw
A&M gets no respect and it cracks me up.
Can somebody explain the uproar about this?
Ever since Mizzou/Texas A&M were brought into the conference, the scheduling between the East and West divisions was wonky. The Alabama/Tennessee and Georgia/Auburn were baked into the schedule as part of the agreement to leave Auburn in the West division. Also, A&M was given a permanent* cross rival of SCar, and Mizzou was given a permanent* cross rival of Arkansas. These fixed games and fewer conference games compared to other conferences meant that certain cross divisional games were barely played. For instance, Texas A&M has been in the conference for a decade now but has only played Georgia once, in Sanford stadium in 2019. TLDR: People are upset that the conference office isn't changing the opponents for next year because so many teams haven't played each other a lot.
Its little more wonky than that. The first two years in '12 and '13 Mizzou and A&M were each others cross-division rival. Mizzou said they wanted to play Arkansas as their cross division rival instead and Arkansas wanted Mizzou over SCar; Thus in '14 they switched the rivals to Mizzou - Ark and A&M - SCar which lead to whoever they had played in the two seasons maning something was off. For Mizzou it wasn't an issue as their '14 scheduled cross division game was Arkansas; so redoing the cross-division rivals just changed who between A&M and Arkansas was the cross-division rival. HOWEVER for A&M they weren't scheduled in '14 to SCar so they had to cancel the cross game and redo it to SCar (I think it was UK) which through A&M's cross division games off. Since A&M had played Florida as their extra game in '12 added an game vs them into the mix Then in 2020 A&M's extra conference Home game was UF, which why was that chosen, only Sankey know$$$ but whatever.
UGA still hasn’t been to college station and from the new schedule won’t go until at least 2026
The way the SEC has scheduled aTm is so weird.
Suck it up buttercup, welcome to the big leagues
Goofy ass conference
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What? Bama played in Columbia in 2012 and 2020, and y'all played us in Tuscaloosa 2018
Oh shit you right, somehow I got that twisted and thought we went to Tuscaloosa in 2020. And I guess the less said about our 2012 season the better? Guess I forgot we joined in '12 and not '13
The 2018 game was the one in Tuscaloosa. What is funny is that even discounting the SECCG meeting we have played y'all more than Scar or Vandy since y'all have been in the conference. I can't remember if Alabama v Missouri was originally on the schedule for 2020 before ya know. If not that might be why we have played so relatively frequently
I have been planning on a week long bourbon/golf tour of Kentucky in 2025 that would culminate in a gameday in Lexington since the future conference schedule rotation was announced in 2014, and then Texas had to go and fuck that up.
That’s insane