re: With the 2 new schools, whats the academic order in the SEC

Doesn’t matter. Most rankings are simply based on research output and endowment $. It has nothing to do with undergraduate education.

LSU has a Nobel prize winner on its faculty (Physics). I don’t care about Harvard &co , just imagine going to school with Olympic gold medal winners, Heisman candidates, and Nobel prize winners, only some SEC schools and a number of PAC12 schools can offer this. I know some people who now “regret” graduating from national liberal arts schools and even Ivy League universities because of their dull alumni lives…