Almost like distance mattered as they stated it would.
Permenent Rivals Announced
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Last: 6 mo ago by StrykerAg
People need to stop calling this 'three permanent rivals'. It's 'three permanent opponents'. The idea is to try to preserve many of the traditional rivalries, but it was never going to be a situation where every team's three opponents are all considered to be traditional rivals.
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NE PA Ag said:
People need to stop calling this 'three permanent rivals'. It's 'three permanent opponents'. The idea is to try to preserve many of the traditional rivalries, but it was never going to be a situation where every team's three opponents are all considered to be traditional rivals.
need to stop calling them permanent also, since they aren't
NE PA Ag said:
but it was never going to be a situation where every team's three opponents are all considered to be traditional rivals.
Unless your name is tu
Mizzou should be Oklahoma Kentucky and Arkansas (Lexington is half the distance to Columbia that CS is and it's a border state and it's Kentucky FB, no one cares who they play)
Tired of getting stuck with these guys and would have taken SC or MSU over them but as always, the SEC screws us over
Tired of getting stuck with these guys and would have taken SC or MSU over them but as always, the SEC screws us over
Iraq2xVeteran said:
It's interesting how we have the same annual opponents as Arkansas. We are playing all 3 of them on the road this year, but I don't want to play all 3 of them of them on the road every odd year: 2025, 2027, 2029, etc. I am guessing that we will play in Texas in Austin again next year because we played 2 consecutive home games against them in 2011 and 2024. I am willing to make that short term sacrifice to avoid having to play all 3 annual opponents on the road every odd year.
You realize that the current Home and Away is probably thrown out the window starting next year. We will probably have a team or 2 that we play at home 2 years in a row same with 1 or 2 away games in a row from this year to next year. It will probably be a resetting clean slate like every other time they have had to shuffle the schedule due to realignment or like this time going from 8 to 9 conference games
TyperWoods said:NE PA Ag said:
but it was never going to be a situation where every team's three opponents are all considered to be traditional rivals.
Unless your name is tu
true, but thats a function of the SEC wanting to give every team their "top choice" for a game. 3 teams consider them their top rival.
BMX Bandit said:NE PA Ag said:
People need to stop calling this 'three permanent rivals'. It's 'three permanent opponents'. The idea is to try to preserve many of the traditional rivalries, but it was never going to be a situation where every team's three opponents are all considered to be traditional rivals.
need to stop calling them permanent also, since they aren't
SEC is calling them annual opponents.
hunter2012 said:BREAKING: Annual SEC College Football opponents for the next 4 seasons per @clowfb👀 https://t.co/nm9NpSUTc2 pic.twitter.com/G0X3qkgJq7
— On3 (@On3sports) September 22, 2025
Would have preferred Bacon bits but at least we got the corndogs.
Tennessee looking like they caught the biggest break in CFB with at least 2 auto wins before the season even starts, maybe 3 if bama keeps going downhill.
My username checks out.
Maroon Dawn said:
Mizzou should be Oklahoma Kentucky and Arkansas (Lexington is half the distance to Columbia that CS is and it's a border state and it's Kentucky FB, no one cares who they play)
Tired of getting stuck with these guys and would have taken SC or MSU over them but as always, the SEC screws us over
Agreed. MSU sounded lame, but better than more Mizzou. However, I am glad to be out of that SCar game. One of the few SEC places I've traveled to that just kinda sucked.
So South Carolina is breaking up the Georgia/Tennessee rivalry?
A is A
Only for 4 seasons unless this is bogus.
No Clanga
No Fayettenam
Mizzou is fine with both LSU and whorns.
No Clanga
No Fayettenam
Mizzou is fine with both LSU and whorns.
A is A said:
So South Carolina is breaking up the Georgia/Tennessee rivalry?
SCar has no one resembling a rival outside of Clemson. You gotta give them somebody.
MaroonStain said:
Only for 4 seasons unless this is bogus.
No Clanga
No Fayettenam
Mizzou is fine with both LSU and whorns.
Yes
Better then getting OU, Texas and either Hogs or Mizzou which they probably looked at.
YNWA.2013 said:Bama and Vandy have the same annuals.
— NSBW (@notsomebutwhole) September 22, 2025
Texas and Mizz have the same annuals.
Arkansas and TAMU have the same annuals.
And we effectively have two conferences, with two groups. One group is 9 Teams, the other group is 7 teams, and they are only joined by Miss State and Ole Miss. pic.twitter.com/m04MrInSrb
Kind of like the old SEC East / SEC West, but tu and Oklahoma both in West and Auburn / Alabama moved to the East. Miss St only one with crossover opponents.
The SEC, and other conferences, are too large. Either remove some teams or play more games such that you play everyone in your conference every year. Either start a week or two earlier, have no bye weeks, or finish in December, or some combination of all three. Classes are of no concern, many football players are not actual students anyway.
A is A said:
So South Carolina is breaking up the Georgia/Tennessee rivalry?
Actually USCe and Georgia has been a bigger rivalry game with the two schools playing 76 times. While UT-GA has been played only 55 times with most of those coming after 1991. They only played each other 21 times before 1991
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And we effectively have two conferences, with two groups. One group is 9 Teams, the other group is 7 teams, and they are only joined by Miss State and Ole Miss.
this is dumb because there are 6 other games each team will play.
It's going to be interesting to see how they split up the other 12 teams for us.
LB12Diamond said:
Almost like distance mattered as they stated it would.
Yeah, It does look like geography played into it. Of course, we are one of the few teams that has to go more than 2 states away. But in all cases it was due to the outlier states of Missouri and Kentucky.
Yeah we will play 3 from the "West" and then there are 9 teams in the "East" and 3 in the "West" left so one year will be 4/2 and the other will be 5/1
So we will have 9 games and play 5 east teams and 4 west in one year and 5 west teams and 4 east teams the other
So we will have 9 games and play 5 east teams and 4 west in one year and 5 west teams and 4 east teams the other
The East side will play each other more but only because the "East" is bigger
There are no longer east and west teams…JJxvi said:
Yeah we will play 3 from the "West" and then there are 9 teams in the "East" and 3 in the "West" left so one year will be 4/2 and the other will be 5/1
So we will have 9 games and play 5 east teams and 4 west in one year and 5 west teams and 4 east teams the other
Hence his quotation marks. Try to keep up Greg.
They honestly might as well have brought back West vs East with this set up
SEC West
Arkansas
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
tu
SEC East
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
LSU vs Alabama basically the only game of note lost
SEC West
Arkansas
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
tu
SEC East
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
LSU vs Alabama basically the only game of note lost
glad they didn't and no one wanted that.
BMX Bandit said:
glad they didn't and no one wanted that.
Didn't want Mizzou either but here we are
I did.BMX Bandit said:
Hence his quotation marks. Try to keep up Greg.
Given the circumstances this was probably the best outcome for everyone as a whole. Everyone got at least 1 or 2 of their choices. Some got 3 but at least I can cheer for Arkansas more often to kick the crap out of tu.
BMX Bandit said:TyperWoods said:NE PA Ag said:
but it was never going to be a situation where every team's three opponents are all considered to be traditional rivals.
Unless your name is tu
true, but thats a function of the SEC wanting to give every team their "top choice" for a game. 3 teams consider them their top rival.
That's not what I consider them...
I think they hashed it up when they put us with Carolina. There is no plan and they fail to follow through on their public comments repeatedly.
Texas broke the SEC!!!
Texas broke the SEC!!!
Maroon Dawn said:
They honestly might as well have brought back West vs East with this set up
SEC West
Arkansas
Louisiana State
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas A&M
tu
SEC East
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
LSU vs Alabama basically the only game of note lost
Wrong UF Tennessee was lost as well…that has been as classic for decades as bama au or uga uf
So our three are all top 20, they better balance out the rest of the schedule.
Milwaukees Best Light said:
Arkansas got the exact same 3 as we did. Kinda weird.
We have a lot in common with Arkansas
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