New SEC 5-1-2 Schedule

This page describes the details of the new SEC schedule where each team has only one opponent form the other division that is the same every year (Auburn/Georgia, et al) and five teams that rotate onto the schedule one annually with two of the five being played each year. One thing that is nice is that every year a new team comes into your stadium and only one leaves. There will no longer be two teams paired for 2 consecutive years.

This SPREADSHEET indicates the present SEC shcedule and the deduced schedule for all 12 teams through 2011 (2 cycles).

For all teams, the following logic was used in making the new pairings:

2002 and 2007
(1) The team that quit being your every year opponent
(2) The first team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1992-93, 2000-01)

2003 and 2008
(1) The first team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1992-93, 2000-01)
(2) The fourth team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1998-99)

2004 and 2009
(1) The fourth team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1998-99)
(2) The second team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1994-95)

2005 and 2010
(1) The second team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1994-95)
(2) The third team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1996-97)

2006 and 2011
(1) The third team scheduled as your rotational opponent (1996-97)
(2) The team that quit being your every year opponent

For Auburn, this looks like this:
2002 at Florida, Vanderbilt
2003 at Vanderbilt, Tennessee
2004 at Tennessee, Kentucky
2005 at Kentucky, South Carolina
2006 at South Carolina, Florida
2007 at Florida, Vanderbilt
2008 at Vanderbilt, Tennessee
2009 at Tennessee, Kentucky
2010 at Kentucky, South Carolina
2011 at South Carolina, Florida

[Source: I found the new schedule for the University of South Carolina through 2006 and since the whole conference has to be in parallel in terms of scheduling, I deduced the scheme for the entire SEC schedule through 2011 (unless it gets changed again).]

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