Ross Dellenger breaks down the winners and losers from the SEC’s updated schedule release.

On Friday afternoon, the SEC announced the two additional opponents that each team will play in its modified 10-game, conference-only schedule.

The league would like you to not focus on the new opponents, instead directing your attention to a team’s complete schedule. Ignore the shiny new pieces and look at the entire puzzle. During a 15-minute unveiling on SEC Network, they beat it into our brains. The network and league are tight, as one might imagine. The curtain lifted showing each team’s new opponents along with their old ones for — remember! — a complete schedule. Think of it as a whole, Dari Nowkhah — God Bless him — kept saying over and over again.

Clearly, the conference used a team’s original eight opponents to craft the most fair and complete schedule as possible. Whether the league used a fancy computer program or confusing calculus