DESTIN, Fla. -- When the Southeastern Conference's new football schedule begins in 2013, it will consist of six divisional games, one permanent cross division rival and another game against a rotating cross division team.

SEC consultant Larry Templeton told the Birmingham News on Saturday that the league would go with a 6-1-1 scheduling model.

Sources told CBSSports.com that the SEC is expected to announce the league's scheduling opponents for the next 12 years and that the rotating cross division game will be a one-year rotation instead of a two-year home and home rotation. However, commissioner Mike Slive said "we'll see what emerges with the schedule."

The SEC's spring meetings began Tuesday in Sandestin. An official announcement on the league's future schedule could come on Friday, the final day of meetings.

In other words: an SEC West team would play six games against the other six SEC West opponents, one game against a permanent SEC East rival and one game against a rotating SEC East team.

That rotating opponent will change every year, meaning each league team will play every other league member at least once every six years. If the league had opted for a home and home series between the rotating teams, it would have taken 12 years for each SEC school to play each other.

The cross division rival games will be: Alabama-Tennessee; Georgia-Auburn, Arkansas-Missouri, LSU-Florida, Ole Miss-Vanderbilt, Mississippi State-Kentucky and Texas A&M-South Carolina.

LSU coach Les Miles was asked about having to face Florida as a cross divisional rival each year.

"I promise you the competition is not the issue," Miles said. "The issue is are you taking one of the, maybe the winningest team in the conference since 2000 -- certainly in the last seven, eight years -- and a two-time national champion and maybe the winningest team on the East and pairing them up against each other? I think it’s wonderful competition. If it helps pick the division champion, I think it’s a mistake.

"The issue then is how is it picked? You tell me the format. This is all based on some vague tradition that is not considering that you’re adding teams to the conference. Tell me about the tradition of the conference when you add teams to it. I think then there needs to be a format of scheduling that is describable. In other words, if you’re going to seed teams and you’re gonna say, ‘These are the teams that won this many championships, this many, they’ll play’ and there’ll be a discriptive style of. I mean, Florida isn’t even a nearby state. This tradition of rivalry is the fact that we enjoy playing them."

Florida coach Will Muschamp favors continuing the Florida-LSU rivalry.

"Again, I think it's a good national game," Muschamp said. "It's two great programs and I do see Les' reasoning in that, but at the end of the day, I think the 6-1-1 format's what our athletic directors and our commissioner decided that's the best route to take."