An earlier Egg Bowl

[DawgatAuburn]

Saw this nugget today....

<section class="contentItem__content contentItem__content--shortstop">The Big 12 has moved Bedlam off the final weekend to Nov. 4 with the hope of avoiding a rematch in the newly implemented championship game. Bedlam has decided the Big 12 in four of the last six seasons, including this year.

Jake Trotter, ESPN Staff Writer</section>

Made me wonder - what would be your reaction to moving the Egg Bowl off of the last weekend of the season? Would you like playing for the Egg in early November? I don't have an answer for how the schedule would conclude, but I think if it were to ever happen, other games would also have to move, like the Iron Bowl, LSU/TAMU, and the always scintillating Arkansas/Missouri contest. Personally I wouldn't care. I'm sure there are plenty out there who would argue against that, because "It's TERRRRRRRDITION!!!!!111!!" I would not be at all opposed to a semi-structured system that saw us rotate our final game opponent every two years and allowed the others to move around within the schedule with some limited exceptions.

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

Don't know about moving the Egg Bowl, but I'm sick of playing Bama-Arkansas-UM to end the season. Our November is always killer. It would be awesome to play Bama in September before they get rolling down the stretch.

 

[dawgstudent]

Besides this year - under Miles - LSU seemed to get worse as the year went on and Bama was the opposite.

 

[Drebin]

Saw this nugget today....





Made me wonder - what would be your reaction to moving the Egg Bowl off of the last weekend of the season? Would you like playing for the Egg in early November? I don't have an answer for how the schedule would conclude, but I think if it were to ever happen, other games would also have to move, like the Iron Bowl, LSU/TAMU, and the always scintillating Arkansas/Missouri contest. Personally I wouldn't care. I'm sure there are plenty out there who would argue against that, because "It's TERRRRRRRDITION!!!!!111!!" I would not be at all opposed to a semi-structured system that saw us rotate our final game opponent every two years and allowed the others to move around within the schedule with some limited exceptions.

Well, as long as we are in the same division, I see no need to move it up. There's no chance we'd be playing again the next week.

I like it at the end of the year. I just wish we didn't have to play Arkansas four days prior when they play Vandy.

Ole Miss probably wouldn't mind...they could move the LSU game to the end of the schedule, the Tigers being their real rival, after all.

 

[MarkDallas]

Put me down for "TERRRRRRRDITION!!!!!111!!"

 

[patdog]

One big difference. Other than Arkansas-Missouri, none of the SEC Thanksgiving weekend games could even potentially be a conference championship rematch the following week. Not sure how you avoid have potential back-to-back rematches in the Big 12 though. Just no way to know in advance which teams will contend and which won't.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Eight teams managed to manipulate their schedules to have scrimmage games in the next to last weekend of the season. Nine if you count Ole Miss having Vandy there, which I'm sure they did. I can't help but wonder if some of that is done to help the SEC teams in rivalry games with teams from other conferences.
UGA played ULL before Ga Tech
Kentucky played Austin Peay before Louisville
Florida was supposed to play Presbyterian before FSU
South Carolina played Western Carolina before Clemson

Of course that doesn't account for Bama, Auburn, LSU, and TAMU doing the same thing.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I wasn't meaning the championship game aspect of it, just the general concept of having the "big rivalry" game moved up. The real litmus test would be if the oft-rumored move of Auburn to the East ever takes place, THEN what would the SEC do, because a rematch would be a possibility, probably frequently.

 

[patdog]

Auburn's not moving to the East. Ever. But throwing out the potential championship game rematch, I don't see there ever being any support for moving the big rivalry games, like Bama-Auburn and MSU-UM earlier. It's a devastating loss for the losing team every year, and I don't think anyone would want to have to play a game the next week coming off a loss in that game. The other "traditional" rivalry games are mostly manufactured rivalries (LSU-A&M have only been playing that weekend a couple of years now and Ark-Mizzou had only played 3 regular season games and none since 1963 until 2014) and could be moved.