New SEC Divisions

#76
#76
bray2milton said:
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
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This is what I see the most, and I really hate the thought of not playing Georgia and Florida every year, while having to continue to play Alabama every season.

Still, because this is the worst scenario for UT, in my mind, so I anticipate it will be what we end up with.
 
#77
#77
Just from a money standpoint point alone Texas would get in. Don't care what anyone's feelings about them are they will bring bags of cash with them. Imo Texas to the east and Oklahoma to the west and keep the rest the same it's that easy.
 
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#78
#78
Mose Phillip's Watch said:
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
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They could form the Southeastern Conference and the Southwestern Conference as subsidiaries of the Super South Conference. Before you know it, you will have the Super North, The Super South, The Super East and the Super West conferences. ESPN would eat it up.
 
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vegasvolfan said:
They could form the Southeastern Conference and the Southwestern Conference as subsidiaries of the Super South Conference. Before you know it, you will have the Super North, The Super South, The Super East and the Super West conferences. ESPN would eat it up.
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So sick of college sports now

Rename it 99% pro sports

Next thing you know kids won't even go to any classes at all
 
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#80
Mose Phillip's Watch said:
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
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Yeah and if that happens we will never win the east. At least right now with the current alignment we have a 15% chance of winning it.
 
#81
#81
I think this is some sort of “smoke screen” diversion of what’s really gonna happen. My guess is that TX ultimately wants to be independent. They’ll leave first. The SEC will expand by getting Oklahoma and Oklahoma state. Alabama and Auburn comes to East.
 
#82
#82
rockytop1792 said:
I like the idea of 4 divisions. West division - Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas A&M. East division - Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn. North division - Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Missouri. South division - LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama.
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Nah.. that’s unfair and it doesn’t make sense for college. I’m not into playing KY, Vandy, Missouri twice.
 
#83
#83
CINCYVOL said:
Why not use strength of schedule like the NFL does? Teams with the best records have the harder schedules the following year.
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I've been saying for years that college football needs a model like this. Also how about scholly reductions for top teams based on ranking? This would be college football's equivalent to draft order. The national champion has to sign 10 fewer players the following season. The runner up, 9. The #3 team, 8. The #4 team, 7. And so on and so forth for the top 10.
 
#84
#84
So what would the 4 Super Conferences look like? Expanded ACC, SEC, Big -20, PAC - 20?
 
#85
#85
Do away with divisions. Go to a 9 or 10 game SEC schedule. Let the two best teams play for the SEC Championship. Play traditional rivals such as Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Vanderbilt. Could even add Auburn back since we have played them a lot before expansion. Play Texas or Oklahoma every other year and rotate. Rotate the rest of the teams on the schedule on an annual basis. You can still play 2 or 3 OOC games annually. I would prefer the 10 game SEC schedule with 2 OOC games if we go to 16 teams.
 
#87
#87
No since in having just east and a west. Might as well follow the NFL system at this point. North, South, East and West.
 
#88
#88
I really hate the addition of OU and Texas to the SEC. I really didn't like A&M and Mizzou coming over. I am a traditionalist and want the best interest for success of our football program. This move will just bury us further into mediocry. I am not a big fan of cheering "SEC SEC SEC" because I only cheer for one SEC team. I could care less if the SEC wins the Football Championship every year, unless its the Vols. I just don't see us ever getting our head above water with the additions of these two programs.

Why not just go all the way and blow up the conferences for football and do regional groupings? Things continue to move so fast since The Great Reset, might as well just go all the way and get it done. Tradition is long gone.
 
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#89
#89
Go to 9 conference games and eliminate divisions. Each school gets three permanent rivals and rotates the other 12 opponents. A kid who stays for 4 years will play a home-and-home against every single SEC team.
 
#90
#90
When the SEC originally divided into East and West, geographical division made sense from a competition stand point as well. LSU, Bama, and Auburn were three of the top winning programs in the SEC. The other three were UT, UGA, and UF. Geography made sense. If OU and Texas join then that may no longer make as much sense.

The SEC should consider creating some kind of "power ranking" with respect to win % over the last 50 years, facilities, stadium size, etc then divide the conference according to that ranking. You wouldn't have to divide by odd and even necessarily. You just wouldn't have 1 & 2 in the same division, 3 & 4 in the same division, and so on. You would probably be able to maintain most of the rivalry games and have a balanced conference.

There would also be some degree of equity boost in recruiting if teams played across the whole footprint rather than a smaller region. I think UT in particular would be helped by playing in Texas regularly.
 
#91
#91
bamawriter said:
Go to 9 conference games and eliminate divisions. Each school gets three permanent rivals and rotates the other 12 opponents. A kid who stays for 4 years will play a home-and-home against every single SEC team.
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I like this better than the pods.
 
#93
#93
OrangeU said:
East isn't much worse than what Tennessee plays now. We play Alabama anyway, and we'll just pick up Auburn. We used to play Auburn a lot. I like this realignment.

We're not going to be great for a while, either way. The real question is: Does this re-shuffle make our road back to relevance a longer one?
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Hell No. Tennesse stops doing dumb s**t and gets back to taking care of their business, and they become relevant quickly. Just need to take the panic button pushing powers that be, and put them in time out.
 
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#94
#94
Two divisions of 8 teams each

SEC Classic - All the original members except Auburn and Alabama (Two have to get bounced and they're it)
New SEC-Everyone added post 1990 plus Auburn & Alabama

Maybe get Max Headroom out of retirement to be spokesman for New SEC.
 
#95
#95
rockytop1792 said:
I like the idea of 4 divisions. West division - Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas A&M. East division - Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn. North division - Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Missouri. South division - LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama.
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That’s a great group if you never want to see TN on TV again
 
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Since Saban came to Alabama Florida has 1 win and a 7 game losing streak since that win. That one win was in 2007 which was Saban’s second season at Bama. That was the Tebow, Harvin, Hernandez roster Gators.

Since Saban came to Alabama Georgia has one win going all the way back to 2007 Saban’s first season at Bama. Since that game they are 0-6 against Saban. That win had Stafford at QB and Moreno at RB.

It would be a thing of beauty to see Florida and Georgia get beat year after year after year by Alabama. They could finally get a taste of adding that automatic loss to their season before it starts.
 
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#97
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rockytop1792 said:
I like the idea of 4 divisions. West division - Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas A&M. East division - Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn. North division - Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Missouri. South division - LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama.
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I'd take that all day long. Then a 4-team playoff for the SEC championship.
 
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