The SEC is set for big changes next year as Oklahoma and Texas are set to join the conference. With these two teams coming on, the league is planning to get rid of the division format, opting instead for a nine-game conference.
This would be six games of rotating opponents played every other year, and three permanent opponents played every season.
Nick Saban has been a big proponent of the nine-game conference schedule. However, he's not in favor of the three permanent opponents he'd play every season - Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee.
In an interview with Ross Delenger of SI, Saban expressed concern about those three games.
His main concern stems from playing three games versus teams in the upper echelon talent wise in the conference.
“We got three teams and two of them are in the top 10 and the other is in the top 10 a lot,” Saban adds. “Look historically over a 25-year history, and the three best teams in the East are Georgia, Tennessee and Florida. You look historically at 25 years, Alabama, LSU and Auburn are the three best teams in the West. So we’re playing them all.”