In the nine-game schedule, each team will play three teams annually as permanent opponents and the remaining 12 teams on a rotating basis. Over four years, each team will play every team in the conference at least once every two years and will have home and home matchups with every other member over a four-year period.

Permanent rivalries? Nonconference scheduling? Our takeaways from the SEC's move to nine conference games, and what it might mean for Alabama.