A new season beckons and, once again, the SEC–considered by many to be the premier conference–won’t go on the road.
Only one SEC team will play a game outside the comfy confines of the old Confederacy. That team? Tennessee, which travels to Berkeley to take on Cal.
The rest of that league’s non-conference schedules:
Alabama–Western Carolina, vs. Florida State, Houston, Louisiana-Monroe
Arkansas–Troy, North Texas, at Tennessee-Chattanooga, Florida International
Auburn–Kansas State, South Florida, New Mexico State, Tennessee Tech
Florida–Western Kentucky, Troy, Florida Atlantic, Florida State
Georgia–Oklahoma State, Western Carolina, Troy, at Georgia Tech
Kentucky–Eastern Kentucky, Kent State, Louisville, Florida Atlantic
LSU–Virginia Tech, Middle Tennessee, at Tulane, Louisiana Tech
Ole Miss–at Memphis, Missouri, Louisiana Tech, Northwestern State
Mississippi State–at Tulane, Jacksonville State, UAB, at West Virginia
South Carolina–Louisiana Lafayette, South Carolina State, at North Carolina, Clemson
Tennessee–at Cal, Southern Miss, Arkansas State, Louisiana Lafayette
Vanderbilt–Richmond, Eastern Michigan, Miami (OH), Wake Forest
For those of you keeping track at home, that’s a total of 48 non-conference games for the SEC. Of those 48, 35 are against non-BCS opponents and 8 are against Div. 1-AA teams.
Of those 48 games, 39 are at home.
Only one SEC team, lowly Mississippi State, plays less than seven home games.
Oh, yes, I know. The SEC is sooooo tough top to bottom, which is why teams can’t play anyone of note out of conference.
Oh, nice to see that Georgia has been voted as having the SEC’s toughest schedule. Congrats to the Bulldogs, who play Oklahoma State, Georgia Tech, Western Carolina and Troy. But they won’t return to Stillwater until 2009…if that game isn’t somehow changed.
Same shinola, different season.
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