Alabama coach Nick Saban expressed displeasure with an aspect of the SEC’s proposed new scheduling model, telling Sports Illustrated that his team would receive an unfair slate of annual games.
The SEC’s nine-game, division-less schedule — expected to be approved later this spring and take effect when Texas and Oklahoma join the conference in 2024 — would include three permanent annual opponents and six rotating opponents each season.
“I’ve always been an advocate for playing more [conference] games,” Saban told Sports Illustrated in a story published Friday. “But if you play more games, I think you have to get the three fixed [opponents] right. They’re giving us Tennessee, Auburn and LSU. I don’t know how they come to that [decision].”
“They said they did a 10-year whatever,” he told Sports Illustrated. “Well, some of those years, Tennessee wasn’t as good as they’ve been in the previous 10 years, but now they are as good as they used to be before those 10 years. Added Saban: “They only did it over 10 years. Now you’ve got name, image and likeness, which changes that whole dynamic, because it’s who has the most money to pay players, until they change the rules.”
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