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LSU -2.5
Virginia Tech +2.5
Tennessee +7.5
Arkansas +13.5
Florida State +3.5
Arizona State +9.5

Quick math time...8 conference games, 4 of those at home. Ninth game is alternating home and away with SEC. Tenth game would be Notre Dame every three years or so, alternating. Let's just assume that any other home and home deals would fall around ND. Let's also assume the 10th game would be the opposite of the ninth game. Five home games.

Still leaves two games a year. One FCS, always at home. The other could be a G5, that they could probably get away with keeping at home.

Even if they want to play a neutral site game, set that up for years where you have the SEC rival at home. That way, it's replacing the 10th game, which would be the alternate site.

Hmm...was this really Clemson/FSU pushing it, or was it NC State and Wake Forest?

LSU -2.5 at Florida
Virginia Tech at North Carolina -2.5
Tennessee at Texas A&M -7.5
Alabama -13.5 at Arkansas
Florida State at Miami -3.5
UCLA -9.5 at Arizona State

LSU -2.5 at Florida (ugh, I hate picking Florida)
Virginia Tech at North Carolina -2.5 (especially if it rains)
Tennessee at Texas A&M -7.5 (pulling for the maroon to drag the orange... Tennessee's Auburn luck should run out soon)
Alabama -13.5 at Arkansas (somehow they play Alabama tougher than you should)
Florida State at Miami -3.5 (it's high time for FSU to right the ship)
UCLA -9.5 at Arizona State (9.5 is a big number, as they say)

One other angle - it's impossible to stop to slow down. VT has increased its footprint exponentially over the last twenty years. More students every year.

How many of us have kids? The population growth rates are staggering, but I want my soon to be born son to go to VT. I might have another kid, I want them to go to VT. Nobody in my family before my generation went to college. Two cousins and myself went to VT. I have another younger cousin, it's where he wants to go.

Either it happens or we get left behind.

What recruit will want to go play for a college team whose own coach questions his school's commitment to the team?

I think he's being honest, but it comes at the detriment to his own program.

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Everyone should listen to this interview. I've never seen Paul Johnson bear his soul like this and be completely honest. This is mind expanding in his comments about the conference as a whole, especially at the last 1/3 of the video. Truly there is great insight here about expectations and commitment.

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