New SEC Divisions

[bray2milton]

East Pod
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Kentucky

Central Pod
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Vanderbilt

West Pod
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Arkansas

Not Welcome ‘Round Here Pod
Texas A&M
Texas
Missouri
Oklahoma

 

[orchidvol]

Rather have N. Carolina and Florida St.

The only names that are being circulated are Texas and Oklahoma, not any of the others being tossed around in this thread. Sounds like the deal is pretty far along. I think it would be good overall for the conference but will make it harder for any potential rebuilding of Tennessee football.

 

[Carl Pickens]

The SEC doesn’t need either of them …. Or anyone else for that matter

 

[CINCYVOL]

Why not use strength of schedule like the NFL does? Teams with the best records have the harder schedules the following year.

 

[Stephen A Smith]

Northeast: Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Georgia
Southeast: South Carolina, Florida, Auburn, Alabama
Northwest: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas A&M
Southwest: Ole Miss, LSU, Texas, Mississippi State

Swap South Carolina and UGA.

 

[VOLnMiami]

Texas will not be coming to the SEC

Oh they are coming, Get ready!....Why aren't you over on the Bama board?...I am sure they are shaking in their boots over there right now...I figured you would be there trying to console your brethern

 

[VOLnMiami]

No there won't be two schools from same state get in

Will be Oklahoma & UNC or VA Tech. Need new TV markets

No ACC team will ever be added to the SEC...Their exit buyout is ridiculous...50 million to leave

 

[Vol Main]

Texas isn’t like most other states it’s huge with two BIG schools having both in the sec would push our tv market as far west as New Mexico

Our Manifest Destiny?

 

[VolnJC]

Think if they do this they should get rid of playing every team in your division yearly...I'd rather see a rotation so we would play all 15 teams at least every 4 years.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

OK, my very own new conference alignment plan. Don't stop at 16, add two more to reach 18 and go to three 6 team divisions. you play everyone in your division, plus two each from the other two divisions for 9 conference games. One home one away then flip the next year then rotate to next two. Each year conference champion is decided with the three division winners and the best (highest rated maybe) have semi finals then championship game. This eliminates having zero shot if you are in the BAMA class division. Simply don't allow the non winner to play the same team so favoritism is not an issue. I would not worry about natural rivalries anymore. Get two shots each year to make that possible after regular season.

Other two? Not sure, just select them that will make division composition practical and provide reasonable balance from historical data paying attention to travel logistics and fan support. I have always wanted to add VA tech and maybe a NC team to black out the entire SE map. All bets are off if this triggers the long awaited super conference age.

 

[nate from decatur]

What about Oregon? I hear they are interested.

 

[lilesrt]

East is brutal


New SEC West: Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M

New SEC East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt

This is setting up perfectly for Tennessee to never be relevant again.

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

East is brutal


New SEC West: Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M

New SEC East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt

No, a much better way:

3 or 4 divisions. With 3 you will have 5 teams, 6 teams and 5 teams. With 4 divisions you will have 4 teams. Two extra divisional games: 1 ranked SEC vs 4 ranked SEC and 2 vs 3. Then the winners play in SECCG. Two more games of high earning revenue in the conference. 2-3 teams will make 12 team playoff every year. Every now an then 4 or even 5.

SEC East: GA, FL, SCAR, Aub
SEC Central: KY, TN, Vandy, Mizzou
SEC South: Al,, LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St
SEC West: Arky, aTm, Tex, OK

3 divisional games every year
3 cross-divisional games every year (TN: East FL GA, South AL, West Arky)
3 games with the other non-rivalry teams in a Division (for TN: year 1 East: GA, Aub, SCAR, year 2 South: LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St, Year 3 aTm, Tex, OK)

That would be 9 conference games and every 3 years you would play every team.

3 Divisions: Which would open door for two future teams.

SEC East: FL, GA, KY, SCAR, TN, Vandy
SEC Central: AL, Aub, LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St,
SEC West: Arky, aTm, OK, TX, Mizzou

It would be messier with Rivalries and rotational games. Maybe the 6 team East has only one rivalry game vs one extra rotational game.

Division Games: 4-5
Rivalry games: 1-2
Rotational games: 2-3
8-9 Conference games: With 8 play every team every 4 years, with 9 every 3 years.


1st ranked vs Wild Card, 2 vs 3. Winners in SECCG

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

What about Oregon? I hear they are interested.

A duck can't pull a ....never mind!

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

My take:

3 or 4 divisions. With 3 you will have 5 teams, 6 teams and 5 teams. With 4 divisions you will have 4 teams. Two extra divisional games: 1 ranked SEC vs 4 ranked SEC and 2 vs 3. Then the winners play in SECCG. Two more games of high earning revenue in the conference. 2-3 teams will make 12 team playoff every year. Every now an then 4 or even 5.

SEC East: GA, FL, SCAR, Aub
SEC Central: KY, TN, Vandy, Mizzou
SEC South: Al,, LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St
SEC West: Arky, aTm, Tex, OK

3 divisional games every year
3 cross-divisional games every year (TN: East FL GA, South AL, West Arky)
3 games with the other non-rivalry teams in a Division (for TN: year 1 East: GA, Aub, SCAR, year 2 South: LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St, Year 3 aTm, Tex, OK)

That would be 9 conference games and every 3 years you would play every team.

3 Divisions: Which would open door for two future teams.

SEC East: FL, GA, KY, SCAR, TN, Vandy
SEC Central: AL, Aub, LSU, Ole Miss, Miss St,
SEC West: Arky, aTm, OK, TX, Mizzou

It would be messier with Rivalries and rotational games. Maybe the 6 team East has only one rivalry game vs one extra rotational game.

Division Games: 4-5
Rivalry games: 1-2
Rotational games: 2-3
8-9 Conference games: With 8 play every team every 4 years, with 9 every 3 years.


1st ranked vs Wild Card, 2 vs 3. Winners in SECCG

 

[reecetn]

East is brutal

New SEC West: Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M

New SEC East: Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt

That will be brutal for the teams currently in the SEC East that do not already play Alabama every year as their rivalry.

I say bring it on!!!!!!

 

[aRmo]

You guys are delusional if you think this is gonna come down to votes. By the time we here about votes it will be 14/14 unanimous decision due to the TV deals the SEC will have. The money that will be brought to pockets. sure A&M will want to be the only texas team in the SEC. But they will still vote yes.

 

[OriginalCoach]

I foresee a 12 team playoff model coming soon. And from what I know, that’s one reason OU is tossing out the bait. Don’t know about Texas. Another reason is the OU AD told the Big 12 commish to stick it, that the continuous 11am kickoff times was bs and they were done. Bowlsby reportedly told OU tuff shat. Can’t say I blame them as they are the face of the Big 12 and if the commish won’t get you at least SOME prime time tv slots, I’d tell the commish to go f himself as well. I know that they won’t always get prime time tv slots in the SEC but damn.....

 

[reecetn]

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[BP4Prez]

Why would we vote yes to this? What benefit does it serve us?

 

[aaronvol]

Texas and Oklahoma want a better deal from Big 12. They have an easier route to championships there as well. This is a headline and money grab on their behalf.

 

[bray2milton]

Well if they let the University of North Mexico at Austin and Chokelahoma in then..our return to legitimacy is going to be hampered greatly. That’s a fact. Albeit we have f’d ourselves many times over in the past 20 years but this would be a outside kick in the ass that we do not need.

 

[woodpusher]

I would predict that they do away with divisions in the event Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC, and instead shift to a four pod system, with four teams to a pod.

Regardless of how it shakes out, I anticipate that UT will get screwed.

Yuck!
I'd rather see 7 divisional games plus one game in the opposite division - a much better chance of the more deserving team winning the division.

With just 4 teams in each pod, there are only 3 intrapod games, plus what? Teams that finished first or second in their pod the previous year play each other, then those that finished 3rd or 4th play each other? 9 conference games? Randomly drop one to get 8?

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

Texas and Oklahoma want a better deal from Big 12. They have an easier route to championships there as well. This is a headline and money grab on their behalf.

TX and OU ditched the Big12 emergency conference call to talk about the situation.

I know TX has the reputation for being a bully in the conference and maybe TX and OU are just pissing on the other schools because they can but I can't imagine ignoring the Big 12 call setup specifically to discuss the problem. Just brutal.

 

[RhodesVol]

Yuck!
I'd rather see 7 divisional games plus one game in the opposite division - a much better chance of the more deserving team winning the division.

With just 4 teams in each pod, there are only 3 intrapod games, plus what? Teams that finished first or second in their pod the previous year play each other, then those that finished 3rd or 4th play each other? 9 conference games? Randomly drop one to get 8?

The scenarios I've seen posited seem interesting. You would play the three other teams in your pod, and then on a year-by-year basis, you would play the teams from the other three pods that finished in the same position as you. So, if you finished second in the pod the prior year, then you would theoretically get three additional games against teams that should be comparable to you. Then you play three games from one of the other three pods to finish out the conference slate. That would give you 9 conference games, and you would tack on three additional non-conference games.

I could see that format providing legitimate parity throughout the conference, while also making your schedule relatively balanced from a competition standpoint.