SEC releases 2012 conference football pairings

[Steak Snabler]

Here are Missouri and Texas A&M's 8-game SEC schedules:

MISSOURI
Sept. 8: GEORGIA
Sept. 22: at South Carolina
Oct. 6: VANDERBILT
Oct. 13: ALABAMA
Oct. 27: KENTUCKY
Nov. 3: at Florida
Nov. 10: at Tennessee
Nov. 24: at Texas A&M

TEXAS A&M
Sept. 8: FLORIDA
Sept. 29: vs. Arkansas
Oct. 6: at Ole Miss
Oct. 20: LSU
Oct. 27: at Auburn
Nov. 3: at Mississippi State
Nov. 10: at Alabama
Nov. 24: MISSOURI

Missouri is in the East, as expected. The Tigers and Aggies will play a "rivalry" game on Thanksgiving weekend.

The full league schedule is available here:

http://bit.ly/tOd28i

Thoughts?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Looks like a rough go for Mizzou and an uphill battle to .500, but at least they get Georgia during the Dawgs' traditional season-opening two-game suckfest.

 

[Bristol Whipped]

I'm surprised to realize that the only automatic blowouts on A&M's schedule are vs. LSU and at Alabama. The rest are at least winnable.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Georgia avoids playing Alabama, LSU or Arkansas again. For, I think, the third consecutive season. Richt should buy a lotto ticket today too.

 

[TigerVols]

Mizzou plays at aTm for the third year in a row. Ouch.

That said, with the improvement in Franklin, facing UGA early, and the spotty future of UT and travelling to Gainesville in cooler weather, I don't it's completely out of the realm of possibility that the Tigers go 7-1. Especially if the Tiger team that played in the Independence Bowl shows up every weekend.

Injuries could be the key, though, as Pinkel's squad will still have B12 depth.

 

[prhack]

Georgia avoids playing Alabama, LSU or Arkansas again. For, I think, the third consecutive season. Richt should buy a lotto ticket today too.

Actually, this will be the second straight season the Bulldogs have missed the current Big 3 from the West. Under the previous rotation, they last played Alabama in 2007 and 2008, LSU in 2008 and 2009 and Arkansas in 2009 and 2010. Alabama was scheduled to come back on in 2012, but that road game was replaced by the trip to Missouri. Georgia is currently in the middle of it's two-game rotation with Ole Miss and will keep that game; otherwise, the Bulldogs would have had only two conference games at home next season. Under the new schedule, they will play three SEC games in Athens with a fourth "home" date in Jacksonville.

The new schedule also moves South Carolina, Georgia's SEC opener every season since 1992, back to October.

 

[TheWritingWaffle]

I'm surprised to realize that the only automatic blowouts on A&M's schedule are vs. LSU and at Alabama. The rest are at least winnable.

I agree to an extent, but remember that A&M has a magical tradition of ****ting the bed, especially in the last three years and especially against Arkansas

 

[Pancamo]

FLORIDA
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: KENTUCKY
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: MISSOURI

Has UF ever played a regular season game in the state of Texas? The last OOC game outside the state of Florida was Syracuse in 1992.

Does Florida win more than two conference games?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

FLORIDA
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: KENTUCKY
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: MISSOURI

Has UF ever played a regular season game in the state of Texas? The last OOC game outside the state of Florida was Syracuse in 1992.

Does Florida win more than two conference games?

I wonder how hot that seat gets if UF opens SEC play 0-2...

 

[prhack]

I'm interested to see whether the SEC eventually goes to a nine-game conference schedule to allow for a faster rotation of non-division opponents. In the past, teams have had one permanent rival from the other division and two other rotating games, guaranteeing that you had fairly routine matchups between every team on both sides (two years on, three years off, I believe). With just one rotating game, teams will play one home-and-home every 12 years. Not a big fan of that.

 

[doctorx]

FLORIDA
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: KENTUCKY
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: MISSOURI

Has UF ever played a regular season game in the state of Texas? The last OOC game outside the state of Florida was Syracuse in 1992.

Does Florida win more than two conference games?

Opened 0-10-1 season of 1979 at Houston.

 

[prhack]

FLORIDA
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: KENTUCKY
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: MISSOURI

Has UF ever played a regular season game in the state of Texas? The last OOC game outside the state of Florida was Syracuse in 1992.

Does Florida win more than two conference games?

I wonder how hot that seat gets if UF opens SEC play 0-2...

Very hot, I'd imagine. Interesting to note that the game in Knoxville is UT's conference opener. Dooley could cool off his own seat considerably with a win, even if Florida under Muschamp isn't the Florida of old.

 

[Pancamo]

FLORIDA
Sept. 8: at Texas A&M
Sept. 15: at Tennessee
Sept. 22: KENTUCKY
Oct. 6: LSU
Oct. 13: at Vanderbilt
Oct. 20: SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 27: vs. Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 3: MISSOURI

Has UF ever played a regular season game in the state of Texas? The last OOC game outside the state of Florida was Syracuse in 1992.

Does Florida win more than two conference games?

I wonder how hot that seat gets if UF opens SEC play 0-2...

Very hot.

It's possible that the only games UF is favored are the Kentucky and Vanderbilt games.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I'm interested to see whether the SEC eventually goes to a nine-game conference schedule to allow for a faster rotation of non-division opponents. In the past, teams have had one permanent rival from the other division and two other rotating games, guaranteeing that you had fairly routine matchups between every team on both sides (two years on, three years off, I believe). With just one rotating game, teams will play one home-and-home every 12 years. Not a big fan of that.

I think they will in a couple of years, but they have to let the already contracted non-conference road games rotate off the schedule before teams will want to play a fifth SEC road game.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Unless you look to factor in the plus factor of the offing of the coach A&M had to endure this season, Aggies appear to be in deep, deep ****.

 

[slappy4428]

I look forward to Bama playing North Texas/Kent State/Jackson-Olin on Nov. 17, then the fan base beating its collective chest about a tough schedule

 

[MileHigh]

I look forward to Bama playing North Texas/Kent State/Jackson-Olin on Nov. 17, then the fan base beating its collective chest about a tough schedule

It's Western Carolina.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I look forward to Bama playing North Texas/Kent State/Jackson-Olin on Nov. 17, then the fan base beating its collective chest about a tough schedule

They open the season against Michigan and also play LSU, Auburn, Arkansas and the rest of a pretty good SEC slate. I don't understand the beef with SEC teams' scheduling, it seems like they all play at least one marquee OOC game every year -- unlike, say, Oklahoma State does.

 

[Blitz]

Ole Miss has as brutal of a schedule as anyone in the league, and that's based partially on the type team the Rebels have at the moment.
After opening with Alabama, they go to LSU and Georgia and just all-in-all have a tough go of it for the first-year coach.
I do like how the extra teams in the conference might change the way teams play the same schools at the same times of every stinking season.
If the league would mix up the dates of when teams face each other, it would bring more balance and fairness to the league.

 

[MileHigh]

I look forward to Bama playing North Texas/Kent State/Jackson-Olin on Nov. 17, then the fan base beating its collective chest about a tough schedule

They open the season against Michigan and also play LSU, Auburn, Arkansas and the rest of a pretty good SEC slate. I don't understand the beef with SEC teams' scheduling, it seems like they all play at least one marquee OOC game every year -- unlike, say, Oklahoma State does.

I'm guessing this breakdown is about the same BCS-wide:

Next year's marquee OOC games/opponents (2): Alabama vs. Michigan (at Dallas); Mississippi vs. Texas
vs. traditional rival (4): Georgia vs. Georgia Tech; Florida vs. Florida State; Kentucky at Louisivlle; South Carolina at Clemson.
vs. BCS teams (6): Auburn vs. Clemson (at Atlanta); LSU vs. Washington; Missouri vs. Arizona State; Vanderbilt at Northwestern; Vanderbilt at Wake Forest; Tennessee vs. North Carolina State (at Atlanta)
vs. quasi-crap (5): Arkansas vs. Tulsa; Texas A&M vs. SMU; Mississippi vs. UTEP; Mississippi at Tulane; South Carolina vs. East Carolina
vs. crap (33): Alabama vs. Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic, vs. Western Carolina; Arkansas vs. Jacksonville State, Louisiana Monroe; Auburn vs. Louisiana Monroe, vs. New Mexico State, vs. Alabama A&M; Florida vs. Bowling Green, Louisiana Lafayette; Jacksonville State; Georgia vs. Buffalo, Florida Atlantic, Georgia Southern; Kentucky vs. Kent State, vs. Western Kentucky, vs. Samford; LSU vs. North Texas, Idaho; Towson; Mississippi vs. Central Arkansas; Mississippi State vs. Jackson State, at Troy, vs. South Alabama, vs. Middle Tennessee; South Carolina vs. UAB, Wofford; Tennessee vs. Georgia State, vs. Akron; Troy; Texas A&M vs. McNeese State; Vanderbilt vs. Presbyterian, Massachusetts

Arkansas has one more OOC opponent to be determined, Texas A&M has two and Missouri has three.