Don’t forget that the Pac-12 plays nine conference games, the SEC eight. So SEC teams need to schedule two P5 out-of-conference games to match the total of P5 schools that the Pac-12 teams typically play.
And no dobut an extra Pac 12 league game is tougher than the cup cakes scheduled by SEC.
Maybe Bama should have played USC to start the season and Arizona to end. At Zona. Lol. And then the SEC championship game.