SEC schedule summary

[JonathanW]

Curious to see who plays who and where, who has the tougher/easier schedules.

If you narrow down to the 5 currently ranked in the top 7:
- UT plays 3 at Home and 3 Away (6 total)
- Auburn plays 2 at Home and 3 Away (5 total)
- Alabama plays 3 at Home and 3 Away (6 total)
- UK plays all 4 at Home and 2 Away (6 total)
- Florida plays only 1 (UT) at Home and all 4 Away (5 total)

Other interesting observations:
- Texas only plays @ 1 of those top 5 teams (Florida), they play the other 4 all at Home; they also have Oklahoma and TAMU at Home, then Missouri and Ark.
- Vandy plays those Top 5 in 7 games (all but Auburn on the Road, and they play UK and UT both places); they also play Okl and TAMU on Road (6 of top 7 SEC teams on Road)
- Georgia plays those Top 5 in 7 games (all but UK on the Road, and they play Auburn and Florida both places)
- no team avoided playing at least 1 of those 5 teams twice

SEC

HOME TEAM

UT

Aub

Alab

UK

UF

Okl

TAMU

Ole Miss

Missouri

Miss St

Ark

LSU

UGA

Vandy

Texas

USC

UT

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Aub

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Alab

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

UK

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

UF

X

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

Okl

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

TAMU

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

Ole Miss

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

X

Missouri

X

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

X

Miss St

X

X

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

Ark

X

X

X

X

X

na

X

X

X

X

LSU

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

na

X

UGA

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

na

X

X

Vandy

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

na

Texas

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

na

X

USC

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

na

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

UK is in a solid position to win the SEC.

Top 2 finishers in the SEC should get automatic #1 seeds. Maybe even the top 3. The rest of the nation is garbage.

 

[Digger-Cat]

Check out Texas' first 7 games. They might actually go 0-7.

 

[Basscat1987]

This league is stupid. No way should any sec team be penalized for losing games or back to back games or anything like that. Unless some of the team just arent as good as advertised but I don’t see that being the case. My worry is are a lot of the sec teams gonna be just completely worn down come tournament time and not perform well in the big dance.

 

[Dontworryboutit23]

UK is in a solid position to win the SEC.

Top 2 finishers in the SEC should get automatic #1 seeds. Maybe even the top 3. The rest of the nation is garbage.

I think we confidently say the SEC winner will come from Auburn Tennessee bama or Kentucky, and dark horse Florida, those 5 feel a level above the rest

 

[Digger-Cat]

Just please, for the love of God, protect home court. Can't afford to give home games away.

 

[Bluegrass79]

We got lucky with the schedule according to this.
Seems like George and Vanderbilt are being Ass raped while newcomer Texas has got the easy road.
If I'm athletic directors for Georgia and Vanderbilt I'm bringing this shit up. It ain't right.

 

[Digger-Cat]

We got lucky with the schedule according to this.
Seems like George and Vanderbilt are being Ass raped while newcomer Texas has got the easy road.
If I'm athletic directors for Georgia and Vanderbilt I'm bringing this shit up. It ain't right.

Yeah, but it seemed like for the last few years, we got the short end of the stick on the scheduling.

It appeared to me that the SEC was more interested in creating bigtime matchups involving UK on the road than using the algorithm they were supposed to he using.

Now watch, UT and Auburn fans are going to complain that UK has an easier schedule and ignore what happened the last few years.

 

[travisbickle]

Here’s my summary for the SEC league schedule:

 

[Digger-Cat]

It doesn't look like Texas' schedule is very easy to me. Here are their first 8 games:
@ aTm
Auburn
Tennessee
@ Oklahoma
@ Florida
Mizzou
aTm
@ Ole Miss

Good luck with that

 

[travisbickle]

This league is stupid. No way should any sec team be penalized for losing games or back to back games or anything like that. Unless some of the team just arent as good as advertised but I don’t see that being the case. My worry is are a lot of the sec teams gonna be just completely worn down come tournament time and not perform well in the big dance.

I think the attrition angle could be a huge factor come tournament time. Just an absolutely brutal gauntlet for every team.

 

[Tampa_cat54]

Just please, for the love of God, protect home court. Can't afford to give home games away.

This is it. THIS is the entire ballgame.

This league will be won (and lost) by whoever protects their homecourt the best.

If we can hold-serve at home and go 9-0 at Rupp, we realistically only need to go 4-5 on the road to perhaps win the league (I think 13 wins would win the league outright this year).

Holding-serve at home gives you the tiebreaker over Auburn as well.

Then go and win on the road vs. Mizzou, Vandy, Texas and Georgia (or Ole Miss, Oklahoma, or Miss State) and you win the league.

That is a super-winnable road slate compared to what it COULD have been. We avoid @ Florida, @ Auburn, @ Texas A&M, and @ Arkansas. I'll take that all day.

 

[Digger-Cat]

This is it. THIS is the entire ballgame.

This league will be won (and lost) by whoever protects their homecourt the best.

If we can hold-serve at home and go 9-0 at Rupp, we realistically only need to go 4-5 on the road to perhaps win the league (I think 13 wins would win the league outright this year).

Holding-serve at home gives you the tiebreaker over Auburn as well.

Then go and win on the road vs. Mizzou, Vandy, Texas and Georgia (or Ole Miss, Oklahoma, or Miss State) and you win the league.

That is a super-winnable road slate compared to what it COULD have been. We avoid @ Florida, @ Auburn, @ Texas A&M, and @ Arkansas. I'll take that all day.

Yes, this schedule favors us and I hope the cats can take advantage of it.
This kind of advantage is pretty rare.

 

[JonathanW]

This is it. THIS is the entire ballgame.

This league will be won (and lost) by whoever protects their homecourt the best.

If we can hold-serve at home and go 9-0 at Rupp, we realistically only need to go 4-5 on the road to perhaps win the league (I think 13 wins would win the league outright this year).

Holding-serve at home gives you the tiebreaker over Auburn as well.

Then go and win on the road vs. Mizzou, Vandy, Texas and Georgia (or Ole Miss, Oklahoma, or Miss State) and you win the league.

That is a super-winnable road slate compared to what it COULD have been. We avoid @ Florida, @ Auburn, @ Texas A&M, and @ Arkansas. I'll take that all day.

I think it might take 14-4 to win the SEC outright, but I think more likely is a 13-5 by at least 2 teams. Hopefully we can be one of the teams reaching 13-5. It's do-able, but it will be a challenge.

9-0 in Rupp would be a great 1st step, but certainly no worse than 8-1.
But by playing @ only 3 of the top 6 (UT, Bama, Okl) projected SEC opponents, and playing 3 of the bottom 5 (UGA, Vandy, Texas) projected (& then 3 in the middle, Ole Miss, Missouri, Miss St, "the Miss teams"), I think it is reasonable to think we could win 4 or even 5 of those road games.

 

[Digger-Cat]

I think it might take 14-4 to win the SEC outright, but I think more likely is a 13-5 by at least 2 teams. Hopefully we can be one of the teams reaching 13-5. It's do-able, but it will be a challenge.

9-0 in Rupp would be a great 1st step, but certainly no worse than 8-1.
But by playing @ only 3 of the top 6 (UT, Bama, Okl) projected SEC opponents, and playing 3 of the bottom 5 (UGA, Vandy, Texas) projected (& then 3 in the middle, Ole Miss, Missouri, Miss St, "the Miss teams"), I think it is reasonable to think we could win 4 or even 5 of those road games.

We go 13-5 in the SEC, we're a 1 seed, assuming we beat Ohio State and Brown too.

 

[runt#69]

I'd say if we went 8-1 at home, and lost only 3 road games, 4 losses would win the league for sure this year. Just gotta take these games one at a time this season especially so. 5 losses in this league would have to get a share of a title, and a one seed to boot, as incredible as the league is this year.

 

[JRCAT14]

Yeah, but it seemed like for the last few years, we got the short end of the stick on the scheduling.

It appeared to me that the SEC was more interested in creating bigtime matchups involving UK on the road than using the algorithm they were supposed to he using.

Now watch, UT and Auburn fans are going to complain that UK has an easier schedule and ignore what happened the last few years.

I don't know why Auburn fans would complain at all. They don't have to play Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi State or Arkansas on the road. Actually, I think they have the easiest schedule of the top teams.

 

[UKSDG]

Auburn always seems to have the easiest schedule, which has helped them when the league in the past.