There’s a reason the SEC hasn’t released the league schedule for the 2010 season.

That’s because some games could be switching dates.

Charles Bloom, an SEC associate commissioner, said Thursday that the league is trying to provide some relief for Alabama so that the Crimson Tide won’t have to play six of their eight conference games next season when the opponent is coming off a bye week.

As it stands now, Alabama’s final six SEC opponents during the 2010 season are scheduled to have bye weeks prior to facing the Crimson Tide.

Those six teams are South Carolina, Ole Miss, Tennessee, LSU, Mississippi State and Auburn.

Bloom said the entire schedule wouldn’t be torn up to accommodate Alabama, but that a more likelihood scenario was a handful of games moving so that the Crimson Tide wouldn’t have to play so many teams next season on the heels of byes.

“This is something that’s important to the entire league, because nobody wants to be in that same position a year or two from now,” Bloom said. “So we’re looking at a way to balance it out this year and for years to come. The difference is that it might be a little tweak this year with more widespread changes coming in future years.”

Blooms said the league hopes to have any changes finalized for the 2010 season prior to the spring meetings in Destin, Fla., in May.

Here’s a better schedule change…Don’t play Georgia State, and actually schedule Boise State.  Heck, you’ll save $500,000, as Boise State has agreed to play a power team for FREE!  Simple Keynesian economics here, and you can’t argue with that!

Nathan Explosion - 12 March 2010 08:44 AM

Here’s a better schedule change…Don’t play Georgia State, and actually schedule Boise State.  Heck, you’ll save $500,000, as Boise State has agreed to play a power team for FREE!  Simple Keynesian economics here, and you can’t argue with that!

They have a realistic chance of losing to Boise St.

I saw a statistic somewhere that Alabama has played like three times as many opponents coming off of bye weeks as the 2nd place team had. I guess I can’t complain since we haven’t lost in the regular season since 2007.

Since 2007, these are the number of SEC games played when the opponent had an open week prior to the game:

16—Alabama

5—LSU

4—Vanderbilt

4—Florida

4—Tennessee

3—Georgia

3—Auburn

2—Kentucky

1—Ole Miss

1—Mississippi State

0—Arkansas

0—South Carolina

Come on Crimson Tide.  Give the People what they want!!! An opening matchup with Boise State, TCU, BYU or Utah!  Heck, like I said again, and this is the logical side of me speaking, If you play the BSU Broncos, you don’t even have to pay them A SINGLE DIME and you don’t have to repay them with an away game!  Makes a heckuva lot more sense than shelling out million to play Chattanooga (although they deserve all they get for giving the world Terrell Owens!)

Nathan Explosion - 14 March 2010 10:38 AM

Come on Crimson Tide.  Give the People what they want!!! An opening matchup with Boise State, TCU, BYU or Utah!  Heck, like I said again, and this is the logical side of me speaking, If you play the BSU Broncos, you don’t even have to pay them A SINGLE DIME and you don’t have to repay them with an away game!  Makes a heckuva lot more sense than shelling out million to play Chattanooga (although they deserve all they get for giving the world Terrell Owens!)

You do realize that Alabama has played the preseason ACC favorites (both in the top 10) to open and won right? Why do we have to open with one of those? I could care less if we play one of those teams bc it is just another game. Saban doesn’t prepare his team for “where the team is ranked or how good they are”. He prepares them for the next game that is all. If you go back and look at the numbers I posted you will see something. Those teams playing Alabama came off bye weeks before playing us. This means we usually play an SEC team who has prepared twice as much for us as we have for them. That is tough. But we will always get those “could be doing more” people.

“You do realize that Alabama has played the preseason ACC favorites (both in the top 10) to open and won right?”

Yeah, but truthfully, playing an OOC game against a team that is in your region doesn’t really count!

At least Alabama is looking to add Penn State and Notre Dame to their schedules, so I will give them that.  Which means they do leaps and bounds more than Florida!

Ok we play San Jose State for the first game of 2010? What is your point? Or are you trying to have your cake and eat it too by saying it has to be a west coast team AND be ranked high?

tider4life - 15 March 2010 02:57 AM

Ok we play San Jose State for the first game of 2010? What is your point? Or are you trying to have your cake and eat it too by saying it has to be a west coast team AND be ranked high?

Actually, it has to be a west coast or northeast team, one that is ranked in the preseason Top 25.  Bonus points for playing that northeastern team in cold weather.

That’s quite a few expectations. Maybe you should go apply to help make Alabama’s schedule then.

tider4life.  You are right about my last post.  It was a little too restrictive.  I will scale it back a little bit.  The game can be one home and home against a top-half tier from the Big 10, Pac-10, or Big 12.  But also to schedule one home game against either TCU, Boise State, Utah, or BYU.  Heck, like I have been saying.  Schedule Boise State and you won’t have to pay them any money!  Heckuva deal if you ask me.

Honestly, I do not know how one can get psyched for a game against the Derek Zoolander Institute for Kids Who Can’t Read Really Good, but that is just me.  I honestly believe more exciting matchups in the early season would be good for the game.  But to each his own, and people are entitled to their own opinions.  I respect that.

Ok and I am all for a game against the best of the best. I would love to play Utah again personally but we have also scheduled top teams to open up the last two years. If only we had a say…