Van wrote:Georgia also went thirty-plus years without ever leaving the Southeast. I believe Florida is still working on some sort of similar stretch. Auburn is just embarrassing with their OOC schedule, and, since you're propping them here, take a look at Bama's OOC schedule this year.
Seriously? Just because you scheduled a no-biggie Pedo St team you thought it'd be cool to back that up with Kent State, North Texas and D1-AA Georgia Southern?
Sam, the reason this issue always gets brought up is because it's always valid. The SEC schedules like full-on pussies. They're hardly the only conference guilty of this, but they are the standardbearers for cowardly scheduling.
Florida's stretch is that they have not played an OOC game outside of the state of Florida in about 25 years now.
Georgia's game at Arizona was their first scheduled game outside of the South East since the 1950's
LSU doesnt play home and homes, they played Ore St in Baton Rouge, needed the OSU kicker to miss 4 kicks to get a win and never went back. The Oregon game was in Dallas, not a home and home, Why not play a second game vs Oregon in Oakland to give Oregon the same advantage?
The SEC teams will play an occasional game vs another BCS conferences teams weaker sisters but almost never are those home and homes.
The only SEC teams that consistently play in OOC teams stadiums have been Miss St and Vandy, the SEC's bottom feeders, and even then those road games are usually vs schools like Memphis State or Wake Forest.