2026 schedule released

Looking at this schedule is a good reason to get rid of the SECCG.
As much as I hate to admit it, I agree. I was 10 the year the first one was played at Legion Field and have only hazy football memories of the time before it existed. It has been such a great event for so long, but the expanded playoff is ruining it and making more nuisance than culmination.

There are legitimate disadvantages to playing in it, and player health and safety shouldn’t be forgotten in that mix either. If you’re in our boat and play a full regular season, CCG but don’t get a playoff bye and then somehow advance to the championship, that’s 17 games - a full NFL regular season.

Pros struggle to make it that, and a bunch 18 (or even 17!!!) year olds with bodies not yet ready for the pros certainly have no business being run through that type of gauntlet.
 
Unless the conferences create a system where they have a 4-team playoff and the winner gets in a re-seeded 4 team playoff between the conference champions then a 9 game+SECCG is irrelevant. In a sense that is your 16-team playoff.
 
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I might be crazy, but i feel like we can go 10-2 with that schedule easy.









Yeah, im crazy.
I wouldn't say "easy" but it could be worse. We have a tough 3 game stretch but the start of our schedule should be cake. The last stretch could be easy but really depends on what we get from Vandy and LSU in their transition year
 



Starts pretty easy but that stretch in October is brutal. Hopefully Vandy falls off some and Lane takes a little to get LSU cooking. If both Vandy and LSU are good this schedule is brutal after Mississippi State
If our offense is humming with some added talent at key positions and the defense continues to improve, Bama should be 6-0 and yes beating Georgia at home, our first real test will be in Knoxville.
 
I think it's time for the SEC to take their ball and go home. They've allowed themselves to be strong-armed into stacking the deck against themselves while the other conferences continue to play a cupcake schedule in comparison. It's one thing if we would get credit from the committee for playing a tougher schedule for han everyone else, but we already know we'll be judged based on record alone. That's without even mentioning the extra injuries that are going to result from this We allow watched SEC title game. Bama was absolutely obliterated by injuries and it showed. Georgia was extremely banged up also, but the difference is they have more depth, so they were able to overcome it. That is just the tip of the iceberg if we are truly going forward with this 9 game schedule, and with one 1 bye week, mind you.


I have always been heavily against the SEC breaking away and forming their their own league, but I don't see any other recourse. The SEC is not going to be in any shape to win any national championships with such heavily skewed schedules. Everyone claims they want fairness, but this ain't it.
 
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I think it's time for the SEC to take their ball and go home. They've allowed themselves to be strong-armed into stacking the deck against themselves while the other conferences continue to play a cupcake schedule in comparison. It's one thing if we would get credit from the committee for playing a tougher schedule for han everyone else, but we already know we'll be judged based on record alone. That's without even mentioning the extra injuries that are going to result from this We allow watched SEC title game. Bama was absolutely obliterated by injuries and it showed. Georgia was extremely banged up also, but the difference is they have more depth, so they were able to overcome it. That is just the tip of the iceberg if we are truly going forward with this 9 game schedule, and with one 1 bye week, mind you.


I have always been heavily against the SEC breaking away and forming their their own league, but I don't see any other recourse. The SEC is not going to be in any shape to win any national championships with such heavily skewed schedules. Everyone claims they want fairness, but this ain't it.

Yes...

If we beat Oklahoma this year we then have to play Indiana which had a two game season and is rested and ready. It is not a level playing field at all.

We do have a nice lead in to next year's schedule. With the 105 man roster we need to spend and develop depth and play a TON of guys early on to have our core sharpened but rested for that middle of the season run.
 
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With this kind of schedule, we will need to field an offense that can run the ball and control time of possession. Its the only way to preserve the depth of your team.

The NFL figured this out a long time ago and that is why they play the way they play. You have figure out how to play a 20 game season and still have a team left.

We will need to adopt NFL philosophies to manage this schedule.
 

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