What is the most times any one player can play against another team, playing for the same school?

[BattleshipTexas]

Theoretically, what is the most times any one player can play against another team, playing for the same college? I guess technically, with conference championship games like the Big 12 has, it is fifteen times?

John Burt is a senior WR for the Longhorns. He played OU as a freshman, sophomore, junior and now earlier this year as a senior. He will play them a fifth time this weekend in the Big 12 championship game. But with the new 4-game redshirt rules, he was hurt some this year and thus will be eligible for the redshirt to come back next year. If the same scenario plays out, Texas vs OU in the Big 12 championship game, he will have played OU 7 times as a Longhorn in his college career.

So in the future, that could happen for a theoretical player every year for five years (one a redshirt year) totaling ten times, but if like Alabama and Georgia, both teams got picked for the NCAA playoffs, the teams could meet a third time in the NCAA championship game. If that all happened five straight years, you have 15 games.

 

[Carolina4]

Probably 10. It would be a scenario where a kid from UGa played Alabama in SEC Title Game, beat them, both teams made playoff and played again in the National Title Game. That player only played final 4 games that season and redshirted. The same exact scenario happens the next 4 years.

That would lead to 10 times which would be nearly impossible to ever see.

 

[HI Cock]

Theoretically, what is the most times any one player can play against another team, playing for the same college? I guess technically, with conference championship games like the Big 12 has, it is fifteen times?

John Burt is a senior WR for the Longhorns. He played OU as a freshman, sophomore, junior and now earlier this year as a senior. He will play them a fifth time this weekend in the Big 12 championship game. But with the new 4-game redshirt rules, he was hurt some this year and thus will be eligible for the redshirt to come back next year. If the same scenario plays out, Texas vs OU in the Big 12 championship game, he will have played OU 7 times as a Longhorn in his college career.

So in the future, that could happen for a theoretical player every year for five years (one a redshirt year) totaling ten times, but if like Alabama and Georgia, both teams got picked for the NCAA playoffs, the teams could meet a third time in the NCAA championship game. If that all happened five straight years, you have 15 games.

I think 15 is correct if a kid plays 3 of his 4 RS games as the regular season, conf champ, and playoff game. Not likely, but possible.

 

[Art__Vandelay]

 

[Carolina4]

I think 15 is correct if a kid plays 3 of his 4 RS games as the regular season, conf champ, and playoff game. Not likely, but possible.

Thought about the regular season too but couldn’t see a scenario where that would work out. To be in a conference championship they’d have to be in different division, so I imagined they wouldn’t play 5 years consecutively. So maybe 12? Hard to say depending on each conference. Just know you’ll never actually see the max!

 

[BattleshipTexas]

Thought about the regular season too but couldn’t see a scenario where that would work out. To be in a conference championship they’d have to be in different division, so I imagined they wouldn’t play 5 years consecutively. So maybe 12? Hard to say depending on each conference. Just know you’ll never actually see the max!

That is true for the SEC, but the Big 12 has no divisions. So OU and Texas play every year in the regular season. Texas beat OU already this year and plays them in the Big 12 championship game this weekend. Also, even in ones like the Big Ten that have a division, in 2011, Michigan and Ohio State were put in different divisions (Legends and Leaders) but still played every year as a "protected crossover" game, to be played every year at the end of the regular season. Then they could play in the regular season and the championship game. This has been revised again to have east and west divisions and both are in the east.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

Probably 10. It would be a scenario where a kid from UGa played Alabama in SEC Title Game, beat them, both teams made playoff and played again in the National Title Game. That player only played final 4 games that season and redshirted. The same exact scenario happens the next 4 years.

That would lead to 10 times which would be nearly impossible to ever see.

In the Big 12 you could add a regular season game all five years to make it 15.

 

[lowcountry_cock13]

Thought about the regular season too but couldn’t see a scenario where that would work out. To be in a conference championship they’d have to be in different division, so I imagined they wouldn’t play 5 years consecutively. So maybe 12? Hard to say depending on each conference. Just know you’ll never actually see the max!

Auburn and UGA play every year and played in SECCG last year together, and we’re just one or two spots off from possibly being matched up in playoffs

 

[uscg1984]

Theoretically, what is the most times any one player can play against another team, playing for the same college? I guess technically, with conference championship games like the Big 12 has, it is fifteen times?

John Burt is a senior WR for the Longhorns. He played OU as a freshman, sophomore, junior and now earlier this year as a senior. He will play them a fifth time this weekend in the Big 12 championship game. But with the new 4-game redshirt rules, he was hurt some this year and thus will be eligible for the redshirt to come back next year. If the same scenario plays out, Texas vs OU in the Big 12 championship game, he will have played OU 7 times as a Longhorn in his college career.

So in the future, that could happen for a theoretical player every year for five years (one a redshirt year) totaling ten times, but if like Alabama and Georgia, both teams got picked for the NCAA playoffs, the teams could meet a third time in the NCAA championship game. If that all happened five straight years, you have 15 games.

So, the hypothetical answer for a player in the SEC is 15 years. For every other conference, 10. At least until the playoffs expand to 8 teams.

 

[Scuba_do]

So, the hypothetical answer for a player in the SEC is 15 years. For every other conference, 10. At least until the playoffs expand to 8 teams.

So Renfro should be done then?

 

[Judson1]

So Renfro should be done then?

Yes. He set the record by playing the Gamecocks 16 times.
If he appeals going to work in the NFL he can probably come back for a few more years.