re: I favor a 10-game SEC schedule. 5 permanent opponents and rotate the other 5 each year.

Anyway, supposing the financial incentive was there for ten conference games I really like the five : three pod solution.

Here that would be:

Fives
Alabama : Tennessee
Auburn : Georgia
LSU : Florida
MSU : Kentucky
OM : Vanderbilt

Threes
Texas : Oklahoma
Arkansas : Missouri
USC : A&M

To explain by example how this would work

Alabama schedule:
Year1&2: Auburn, LSU, MSU, OM, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas, USC
Year 3&4: Auburn, LSU, MSU, OM, Tennessee, Florida, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma, Missouri, A&M

Texas schedule:
Year 1&2: Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, USC, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, OM, MSU
Year 3&4: Oklahoma, A&M, Arkansas, Missouri, USC, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt

The fives are playing one of the "threes" pods and half of the rotating opposite fives to get ten games

The threes play all of the threes every year and one of the fives to get ten games. The whole rotation (home & away against all 15 conference opponents) takes four years maximum for every team

The one program that is arguably getting screwed by this is South Carolina. They aren't playing their #1 in Georgia every year. You could replace Vanderbilt in the five east pod with USC if that was consensus (since Vanderbilt has the smaller fan support, the negative in that case being the loss of the annual Tennessee vs Vanderbilt game)