Fishwrangler11 said:
A lot of negative Nancies and Neds on here.
I think the schedule is….fine. By that I mean, is it as easy as this year? No. Is it as hard as the SEC West? No way. I think we got a serious break that LSU is at the beginning of the season with the hope that they don't quite have everything running there yet. I also think we're gonna need the first few weeks to get our act pulled together, which is why the soft start is nice.
And for all of you who think tu got it easy, remember they are now on the rotation of playing Bama and UGA in the same year, they have only 3 SEC home games, they have to play 8 straight conference games (back to 1 bye) they have to play at L$U at the END of the season, and they have to come to us. So if anything, I'm thinking that the grind of the schedule actually really finally gets to them next year and realistically end up with only 9 wins.
Looks like t.u. has 4 SEC home games plus Ohio State at home. Florida, Ole Miss, MissSt and Arky plus OU in Dallas. They are bragging about 9 games "within the state", including 7 home games, us and RRS.
In comparison to the old SEC west days, we have at LSU and at Alabama which were always opposite each other, so playing both on the road is an up.
USCe and Arky are still on there. We dropped both Mississippi's, Auburn in favor of Tennessee, at Missouri and Kentucky. Debatable depending on the year but let's call it a wash.
Adding in home vs t.u. and away against 0u, both top 15. Odds are that they are both better than our rotational SEC East team (except for the one year it was Georgia). I'd say the new version is harder (8 vs 9 games, too) but whatcha gonna do.