SEC Scheduling News: Auburn adds home and home with Clemson

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Auburn continues the SEC trend of taking advantage of the 12th game to book a quality non-conference opponent. After wussing out on the non-conference slate from '04-'07, the Tigers are stepping up. They will play Clemson in 2010 (at AU) and 2011 (at CU). For Clemson this series replaces the recently cancelled match-up with Pitt.

Winner gets the lake.

Auburn's non-conference opponents:

2007 - Kansas State, USF + 2 jobbers (all home)
2008 - West Virginia, Southern Miss + 2 jobbers (all home)
2009 - West Virginia, Southern Miss + 2 jobbers (only WVU away)
2010 - Clemson (home)
2011 - Clemson (away)

Clemson's non-conference opponents through 2016:

2008 -- Citadel (H), UCF (H), vs. La. Tech (at Shreveport), SC (H)
2009 -- La. Tech (H), MTSU (H), CMU (H), at SC
2010 -- at Auburn, SC (H)
2011 -- Auburn (H), at SC
2012 -- at Vandy, SC (H)
2013 -- Vandy (H), Georgia (H), at SC
2014 -- at Georgia, SC (H)
2015 -- Mississippi (H), at SC
2016 -- at Mississippi, SC (H)

Non-conference opponents dropped from recent and future Clemson schedules:

Auburn: 2006, 2007 -- Auburn dropped series.
Ball State: 2010 (H)
Oklahoma: 2008 (A), 2011 (H) -- Clemson dropped series.
Pittsburgh: 2009 (H), 2010 (A) -- Clemson dropped series.
Troy: 2011 (H) -- Troy dropped series.

Given both team's penchant for cancelling interesting sounding games, I'd put the odds of these games actually happening at 20%.

See Also:
-- Clemson to play Auburn - GoUpState.com
-- Future Gamecock Schedules - GSB
-- Football Scheduling Complexities - GSB
-- SEC 2008 Schedules - GSB

PWD

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