re: The PODS - the one thing you need to know

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Call me old school but I do as well. Go to 9 conference games, keep West East, reshuffle them once Texas/OU join:

West
UTexas
OU
LSU
A&M
Ark
OM
MSU
Mizzou

East
Bama
AU
UGA
UF
UTenn
UK
USC
Vandy

Regionally aligns perfect, the balance of power is about as good as you can get. Play 7 teams from your division rotate 2 from other division. Barely any rivalries get killed with this. You can even do 1 permanent opponent from other division to preserve almost all rivalries and rotate the other, but I think more people would rather see variety of teams at that point.

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I sometimes wonder if the SEC is afraid of that because both sides are large enough that in the future they could break away and start their own conference.