I would just add to my previous comment that Alabama just got through a series with both Florida and SC in the past 3 years. So I'm sure that played a role in the minds of the homeboys. However, like TerryP, I'm a little disappointed when we understood our series with Georgia would resume. Once you been to a "blackout," you just got to go back.
I'm glad we have a tough schedule. Everyone should be. Bragging rights don't seem so hollow when you got the report card to prove it.
I agree. If you're a championship team, you can win against tough competition. If we had pulled off the sweep over Bama last year it would've been a resume for the ages. I'd much rather be champion for a season like last year than hear bs about a "weak" schedule(that's not really possible in the SEC).
I don't think LSU fans care about who is on our schedule, bring it, put South Carolina on there too, but quit giving Alabama a free ride.
I think you still owe SC a visit in your series. My only fear is that the homeboys didn't give all our opponents 2 weeks to ready themselves. Lot of bye weeks floating around.
We owed Kentucky a visit this season. I have a feeling that the interdivisional games last season and this season as well as possibly next season won't have any bearing on the schedules for the 2014 season onward.
Could be right. Teams having to revisit away games like Georgia to the barn, Ole Miss at our place, aTm to Ole Miss, will stay in rotation once the 12 year schedule takes hold in 2014.
Agreed. Note Womack using the term "bridge schedule." I don't know what they have in mind, but there's something about the way they scheduled 2013 that'll reflect on the 2014 schedule—a year hopefully we'll be at nine conference games.
That's the year that the SEC streak will be broken. It's already hard to get through the conference undefeated without adding another conference game. Plus it takes away another home game for revenue.
It's my theory the move to nine games will coincide with the launch of the SEC network which should negate the lost home game revenue for the University's. What I'm really curious to see how it ends up developing is the Arkansas vs A&M series continuing in Dallas. It doesn't look like a smart move to me. Consider: It could end up where Arkansas is in a year when they have four home games and one of those home games is in Dallas. They'll be able to host recruits in Dallas, but it would also mean they will only have three SEC games in Fayetteville for official visits. Then add in the point some of their SEC games are still being played in Little Rock? I've always been of the opinion one of the main keys to landing quality—highly rated—out of state recruits has been to get them on campus. Now, with such a limited recruiting base the state of Arkansas offers, what are they thinking if they end up with only two SEC home games where they can host those types of prospects—as few and far between as they already are.
