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Episode 484: On Schedule
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Episode 484: On Schedule

Justin and Dan talk about a potential 9-game SEC schedule before going week-by-week through Auburn football's 2025 league slate.
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This show is all about schedules, specifically football ones. In this Observer subscriber-only episode, Justin and Dan discuss:

  • the news of ESPN offering more money to the SEC for a ninth conference football game in the future

  • how the growing College Football Playoff might slow down that process

  • why Justin wishes things could go back to the BCS system

  • why Dan wants to go even further back to determine a national champion

  • what a 9-game schedule might actually look like for Auburn in the future

  • the Mississippi State vs. Vanderbilt vs. others debate in a 3-6-6 format

  • the positives and negatives of getting Alabama and Georgia off the same home/road split

  • a game-by-game breakdown of Auburn’s 2025 conference schedule, which is just a flipped version of the 2024 slate

  • how the opener against Oklahoma will be a true wild card game

  • why Texas A&M looks tougher this time around

  • where Auburn’s season could flip — and what surviving the early stretch looks like

  • the enduring legacy of

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