Kalen DeBoer talks Alabama football roster retention for 2025
Here’s what Kalen DeBoer said about the Alabama football roster heading into 2025.
The SEC’s scheduling debate will renew when the conference’s spring meetings begin later this month.
It’s that age-old question of whether to stick with eight conference games or bump up to nine.
Maybe, that’s the wrong question, though, and the SEC should be asking: Would a Big Ten-SEC challenge be better than a ninth conference game?
On this edition of “SEC Football Unfiltered,” a podcast from the USA TODAY Network, hosts Blake Toppmeyer and John Adams debate the merit of adding a ninth SEC game versus sticking with the status quo.
Retaining the eight-game format would sacrifice the annual nature of some secondary rivalries. But, could containing the SEC schedule to eight games encourage the conference to pursue more bold non-conference scheduling?
Is that worth it? Well, that depends.
SEC football schedule format
Toppmeyer and Adams are intrigued by the idea of an SEC-Big Ten football challenge – so intrigued, that they like the concept of an interconference clash better than a ninth SEC game.
Toppmeyer: I’ve long supported the idea of the SEC increasing to nine conference games, which would put it in line with the Big Ten and Big 12. Also, a ninth conference game would work in tandem of my other wish-list item: that every SEC team would play a minimum of 10 games against power-conference opponents.
Nine SEC games + one non-conference games = 10 real games and only two cupcakes.
But, if the SEC collectively would consider eight SEC games + one challenge game against a Big Ten opponent + one additional non-conference…
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