How should the SEC make the schedule when Oklahoma and Texas arrive?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Seth Emerson joins Andy and Ari to debate how the fixed opponents should be distributed across the new SEC schedule. We all know the Iron Bowl and the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party are staying, but where does everyone fit?
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| 0:47.9 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show, and it is time to start looking forward to the next version of college football. |
| 0:56.7 | Ari and I talked about this quite a bit late last week after Oklahoma and Texas got officially sprung from the Big 12 to join the SEC in 2024. And there's a new version of college football coming. And part of that is going to be |
| 1:03.2 | the SEC and the new 16 team lineup and what that schedule is going to look like. And we brought |
| 1:10.5 | on Seth Emerson, |
| 1:11.3 | our Georgia writer, because he's been covering this very thoroughly all through the process. And, |
| 1:17.6 | yeah, Seth, we've both done our guesses at what the three teams, you know, three fixed opponents |
| 1:23.5 | per school we're going to look like. I'm doing it again for tomorrow in a column, but I kind of want to workshop it here because |
| 1:33.4 | I have struggled with these. |
| 1:37.3 | And I keep wondering if I just need to change philosophy on these things. |
| 1:41.8 | You've done this exercise multiple times. Should we start with the one |
| 1:47.1 | school that's the easiest? Would that be the good jumping off point? Can I back up? Yeah, go for it. |
| 1:53.4 | Yeah. Can I do a victory lap? Oh, absolutely. 100%. Like five years ago or however long ago, |
| 1:59.0 | it was before I was working for our current publication |
| 2:01.8 | i wrote a column saying the cc needed to get rid of divisions and the fan response was kind of like |
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