(07-12-2013 08:27 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote: (07-12-2013 08:25 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote: Yuck. After Kentucky and Florida, the SEC doesn't have any basketball interest. I would rather play the new Big East over SEC.
NC State and Auburn - they are both land grants and both suffer from proximity to UNC and Bama.
Miami/LSU
UVa/Ole Miss or Mizzou
NC State/Auburn
(You could switch - LSU and NC State are slated to play in 17 and 20)
GT/UGA
CU/SC
UNC/UT
WF/Vandy (or Duke/BC)
Louis/UK
VT/TAMU
FSU/UF
That leaves Bama, MSU, and Arkansas as well as Pitt and Syracuse.
I think the trick would be to spread the games into three distinct weeks:
FSU/UF, GT/UGA, SC/CU, WF(Duke)/Vandy - Last week of regular season.
Louis/UK, NC State/Auburn, UVa/Ole Miss(Mizzou) - First three weeks of season.
UNC/UT, Miami/LSU, VT/TAMU - Mid season.
The problem is that some of these schools are building schedules that will not allow this. VT has Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Va, and ND on their future schedule. They won't desire a game with TAMU since it does not help in their recruiting footprint. Tennessee would be their choice.
If the SEC goes to a 9 game slate, this is out unless a 13th regular season game is added.
For the record, NC State, Clemson, and VT are the ACC's three "cow colleges" - traditional land grants. Their nearest set of analogues in the SEC are LSU, Mississippi State, TAMU, and Auburn.