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The great SEC schedule debate shouldn't even be a debate

The Great Debate of the SEC — which shouldn’t even be a debate — has somehow churned into another year and come to dominate another round of meetings down in Destin, Florida.

It has left Missouri football head coach Eli Drinkwitz as mystified as ever.

“I’m a history teacher by trade,” Drinkwitz told reporters on Tuesday. “And every time I come to one of these meetings I’m blown away that the 13 colonies actually formed a union but we can’t agree on an eight- or nine-game schedule.”

Yes, the SEC’s ongoing discussion of how often to play and who to play often is back.