UK will be one of the teams that will benefit the least.. You can't be a team that has only two 10 win seasons in your history and believe you are going to come up better when two better teams enter the conference. There is always a path for anyone to get to the playoffs, just win. But UK's has had issues consistently winning at a higher level. They aren't good enough to walk that path the playoffs because they aren't deep enough. That's the common denominator with that team.
Defintely benefits TN as Dave said. But also I think it does from a scheduling standpoint. UGA and Bama will have their schedules doubled in difficulty and OU and Texas will play TN differently thatn Bama or UGA. TN's scheme will force those teams to throw the ball instead of using their run game as much. Against Bama and UGA they will run to keep the game slower. I trust TN's ability on offensive scheme over Bama and UGA's poor rushing offenses to beat OU and Texas. We match up better with both OU and Texas than Bama or UGA match up with them for the above reason.
Arkansas… Plain and simple. They get their main rival back which really opens up the state of Texas recruiting for them like the old days.
I thought that 25 is just going to mirror 24. If you play at home against a team in 24 you play them on road in 25.
UK will be one of the teams that will benefit the least.. You can't be a team that has only two 10 win seasons in your history and believe you are going to come up better when two better teams enter the conference. There is always a path for anyone to get to the playoffs, just win. But UK's has had issues consistently winning at a higher level. They aren't good enough to walk that path the playoffs because they aren't deep enough. That's the common denominator with that team.
Defintely benefits TN as Dave said. But also I think it does from a scheduling standpoint. UGA and Bama will have their schedules doubled in difficulty and OU and Texas will play TN differently thatn Bama or UGA. TN's scheme will force those teams to throw the ball instead of using their run game as much. Against Bama and UGA they will run to keep the game slower. I trust TN's ability on offensive scheme over Bama and UGA's poor rushing offenses to beat OU and Texas. We match up better with both OU and Texas than Bama or UGA match up with them for the above reason.