re: Hypothetical 16 team SEC, including Okie and Okie St.

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We are only talking football in this instance.

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from CFDW

UK vs UT
series dates back to 1893 and includes 108 games and pretty much unbroken series since WW I

UK vs VU
series dates back to 1896 and includes 85 games and pretty much unbroken series since WW II


compared to UGA / UF / USC / AU

Dawgs - 66 meetings
Gators - 63 meetings
Tigers - 32 meetings
Cocks - 24 meetings


Pretty clear football triangle between UK / UT / VU from the very beginnings of college football (UK was the first SEC team with football and was a decade before the rest of the SEC schools) which should be enough but UK and VU have additional ties that go back to bot the start of football in the south and the founding of the SEC in 1932. While many will fight to protect the Bama and Vols game I think there is a significant alumni base in the triangle of UK / UT / VU to protect that triangle. Not sure the SEC will want to disrupt their northern most block of schools as they are the buffer to the B1G.