Auburn to the East Solution

The best solution is the Pod System as proposed by Bill Connelly at SBNation, but it's too progressive and nobody would do it at this point.

The second best solution, IMHO, is this.

EAST
Alabama
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee

WEST
Arkansas
LSU
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Missouri
Texas A&M
Vanderbilt

- 9 SEC games
- no permanent opponents
- 3 rotating cross-divisional games

We'd all play each-other a whole lot more often and the rivalries that are the reason for the permanent games would be in the same division. Because of all the rotating games the cross-divisional games could even be picked based on some sort of weighted "fairness" system that both makes the matchups better and still keeps teams playing all the other SEC teams.

Yes, LSU would immediately feel better about their chances of getting to Atlanta, but every year they'd play 3 East opponents that could be tougher than, say, Arkansas'. And, in the end, who cares about winning a "division"? Big XII north teams won a lot of divisions post-Nebraska decline and it didn't matter because they just lost to Oklahoma/Texas.

As an Alabama fan I'd hate losing the LSU game, but I'd love playing Georgia and Florida every year.