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Originally Posted by Ksyrup
Yeah, because if you have to play everyone in your division, now that's 6 games instead of 5, plus 2 against the other division gives you 8. So if your 2 in the other division are permanent, you NEVER play the other 6? Or am I adding that up wrong? So unless they go to 9 conference games or remove a permanent rivalry, you don't play 6 out of the 14 teams in your conference.
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I would think that if they moved Auburn east they'd have to go to
9 conf games = 6 same div + 2 perm + 1 rotating (basically 1 visit every 10 years for those five teams)
Auburn seems like the most problematic team to move from west to east (although doing so actually screws up Bama's schedule) under an 8 conference game schedule, with Arkansas being the easiest to move. Their permanent East opponent at the moment is S.Car and that series only goes back to the last expansion.
Move the Hawgs east and you stay at 8 with 6 same + 1 perm + 1 rotating (makes for one visit every 12 years by your opposite half non-perm). You make A&M/Arkansas one new perm and MU/SC the other (unless there's more history with Mizzou/Arkansas than I recall).
edit to add: Just to clarify, there's current only one permanent team from the other side. That worked okay since it allowed Bama/UT and Aub/UGA to be the perms with their other rivals being in the same half with them anyway. The minute you move Auburn (or likewise Bama I guess) then you start screwing up stuff for an 8 game conf schedule.